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An Alphabet, Inc. is an American conglomerate company that ...
- Context:
- It can own subsidiaries, such as:
- Calico, Inc. (live forever)
- Fiber, Inc. (high-speed internet)
- Google, Inc. (Search, Maps, YouTube, Android, Ads, Apps)
- Google Ventures, Inc. (venture capital business)
- Google Capital, Inc. (investment fund)
- Google X, Inc. (auto-driving cars, Google Glass, internet by balloon, moonshots)
- Life Sciences, Inc. (the glucose-sensing contact lens people)
- Nest, Inc. (smoke alarms, home cameras, thermostats & connected home devices)
- It can own subsidiaries, such as:
- See: Public Company, Holding Company, Internet, Software, Telecommunications Equipment, Health Care, Biotechnology, Venture Capital, Calico (Company), Google.
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2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc. Retrieved:2015-10-4.
- Alphabet Inc. (commonly known as Alphabet) is a conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other companies previously owned by or tied to Google. The company is based in California and headed by Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with Page serving as CEO and Brin as President. The reorganization of Google into Alphabet was completed on October 2, 2015. Alphabet's portfolio encompasses several industries, including technology, life sciences, investment capital, and research. Some of its subsidiaries include Google, Calico, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, and Nest Labs. Following the restructuring Page became CEO of Alphabet while Sundar Pichai took his position as CEO of Google. Shares of Google's stock have been converted into Alphabet stock, which trade under Google's former ticker symbols of "GOOG" and "GOOGL".
The establishment of Alphabet was prompted by a desire to make the core Google internet services business "cleaner and more accountable" while allowing greater autonomy to group companies whose core business was not internet services.
- Alphabet Inc. (commonly known as Alphabet) is a conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other companies previously owned by or tied to Google. The company is based in California and headed by Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with Page serving as CEO and Brin as President. The reorganization of Google into Alphabet was completed on October 2, 2015. Alphabet's portfolio encompasses several industries, including technology, life sciences, investment capital, and research. Some of its subsidiaries include Google, Calico, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, and Nest Labs. Following the restructuring Page became CEO of Alphabet while Sundar Pichai took his position as CEO of Google. Shares of Google's stock have been converted into Alphabet stock, which trade under Google's former ticker symbols of "GOOG" and "GOOGL".