Better Buy: Alphabet vs. Pinterest
Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) both generate most of their revenue from ads, but the tech companies operate very different business models.
Alphabet's Google owns the world's top search engine, and its sprawling ecosystem includes YouTube, Android, Google Maps, Gmail, Chrome, and Google Cloud, the world's third-largest cloud infrastructure platform. Google also provides services for online payments, mobile messaging, cloud gaming, and other markets, and its experimental sister companies within Alphabet develop driverless cars, medical devices, and other next-gen technologies.
Pinterest carved out a niche in the social networking market with its virtual pinboards, which are used to share interests, ideas, and hobbies with other users. Its pinboards often feature fashion, home design, cooking, and travel ideas, and a growing number of companies are uploading their entire catalogs to Pinterest as "shoppable pins" to reach those social shoppers.
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