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Internet companies: research and development expenditure 2018
Research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
by J. Clement,
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Mar 4, 2019
This statistic gives information on the research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2018. During the most recent year, Alphabet spent 21.4 billion U.S. dollars on R&D. Social networking company Facebook spent 10.3 billion U.S. dollars on research.
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by J. Clement,
last edited
Mar 4, 2019
This statistic gives information on the research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2018. During the most recent year, Alphabet spent 21.4 billion U.S. dollars on R&D. Social networking company Facebook spent 10.3 billion U.S. dollars on research.
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- 2014 to 2017
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- research and development / product development spending
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- Yahoo was purchased by Verizon Communications in June 2017.
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- Yahoo was purchased by Verizon Communications in June 2017.
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