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Title: Google restructures, naming parent company Alphabet Post by: HCK on August 12, 2015, 03:00:11 am Google restructures, naming parent company Alphabet
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Google will become a subsidiary of a new parent company called Alphabet, under a massive restructuring arrangement designed to let the company's businesses operate more efficiently.</p><p>Under the changes, announced Monday, Google co-founder Larry Page will become CEO of Alphabet. Sundar Pichai, formerly VP at Google where he oversaw Android, Chrome and Google apps, will become CEO of Google.</p><p>Alphabet will include a group of companies, the largest of which will be Google. Other efforts will be run separately but apart from Google, including health efforts such as Life Sciences, which works on glucose-sensing contact lenses, and Calico, focused on longevity. Alphabet will also include Google's advanced X labs, which handles projects like Google's self-driving cars and Wi-Fi balloons.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2969252/internet/google-restructures-naming-parent-company-alphabet.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Google restructures, naming parent company Alphabet (http://www.macworld.com/article/2969252/internet/google-restructures-naming-parent-company-alphabet.html#tk.rss_all) |