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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)
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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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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- March 2019
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- 2014 to 2017
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- research and development / product development spending
- Supplementary notes
- Yahoo was purchased by Verizon Communications in June 2017.
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- Worldwide
- Survey time period
- 2014 to 2017
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- research and development / product development spending
- Supplementary notes
- Yahoo was purchased by Verizon Communications in June 2017.
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