Motley Fool December 12, 2020
The search giant is making a lot of moves that add up to a powerful offering for the healthcare industry.
Everyone thinks of Alphabet as an advertising company with nine products boasting over 1 billion users. That’s fair. The company’s Google search engine, Gmail, and YouTube are dominant in their categories. But there is another area where the company has been busy that doesn’t draw as much attention. Healthcare could be the industry where Alphabet finds its next big product, and the company’s strategy is painting a clear picture of where it might materialize.
Build vs. buy
As of January 2020, Alphabet had bought more digital health start-ups than any other company. It now has 57 of these...