Google's capital spending is growing much faster than its revenue.

Alphabet said in Monday's earnings report that Google's capital expenditures, which include the costs of data centers and other facilities, more than doubled in 2018, that fastest expansion in at least four years.

While the vast majority of Google's revenue comes from advertising, the company has been picking up more business from cloud applications and cloud-based infrastructure, which requires data center equipment. Google also continues to hire rapidly across the globe, requiring it to buy and lease more space for people to work.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/02/04/googles-capital-expenditures-doubled-in-2018.html

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-q4-2018-revenue-950239/amp/

CHINESE NEW YEAR begins on February 5, celebrating the beginning of a new year according to the traditional Chinese calendar.

Chinese New Year - or Spring Festival as it’s also known - begins on the new moon that appears between January 21 and February 20, which this year is Tuesday, February 5. It is a major holiday across East Asia and is celebrated in South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Malaysia as well as Greater China. Regions and countries with major Chinese populations such as Singapore and Myanmar also celebrate.

The animals of the Chinese zodiac rotate on a 12-year cycle, and recent years of the pig include - 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019.

Each animal has attributes which are said describe those who are born in that year’s personality.

For those born in the year of the pig, which in recent years has been 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007 and now 2019 are said to have a beautiful personality and are blessed with good fortune in life.

One of the origin stories of how the Chinese zodiac stems from an ancient folk story.

The story goes that the saying “lazy little pig” comes from the race to the Emperor as the Pig apparently became hungry in the middle of the race, stopped to eat and then fell asleep before waking to finish last.