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.
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Google, & Facebook, & eBay, & Yahoo, & Twitter, & LinkedIn, & IAC, & AOL, & Meta Platforms. (March 2, 2022). Research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 03, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/270854/research-and-development-expenditure-of-leading-internet-companies/
Google, und Facebook, und eBay, und Yahoo, und Twitter, und LinkedIn, und IAC, und AOL, und Meta Platforms. "Research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars)." Chart. March 2, 2022. Statista. Accessed June 03, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/270854/research-and-development-expenditure-of-leading-internet-companies/
Google, Facebook, eBay, Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn, IAC, AOL, Meta Platforms. (2022). Research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 03, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/270854/research-and-development-expenditure-of-leading-internet-companies/
Google, and Facebook, and eBay, and Yahoo, and Twitter, and LinkedIn, and IAC, and AOL, and Meta Platforms. "Research and Development Expenditure of Leading Internet Companies from 2014 to 2021 (in Million U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Mar 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/270854/research-and-development-expenditure-of-leading-internet-companies/
Google & Facebook & eBay & Yahoo & Twitter & LinkedIn & IAC & AOL & Meta Platforms, Research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/270854/research-and-development-expenditure-of-leading-internet-companies/ (last visited June 03, 2023)
Research and development expenditure of leading internet companies from 2014 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph], Google, & Facebook, & eBay, & Yahoo, & Twitter, & LinkedIn, & IAC, & AOL, & Meta Platforms, March 2, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/270854/research-and-development-expenditure-of-leading-internet-companies/