Internet companies: research and development expenditure 2021

Published by S. Dixon, Feb 2, 2023
During the most recent year, Alphabet spent over 31 billion U.S. dollars on research and development. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) spent a total of 24.65 billion U.S. dollars, up from 18.44 billion in 2020, and America camera and social media company Snap had a R&D expenditure of over 1.5 billion U.S. dollars for 2021.

Research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars)

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March 2022

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2014 to 2021

Special properties

research and development / product development spending

Supplementary notes

* PayPal: In 2019, amounts regarding 2017 and 2018 were reclassified to conform with current presentation.

Yahoo was purchased by Verizon Communications in June 2017.

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