Google: Alphabet might be taking over Google’s future
“This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products contained in Alphabet instead”.
Under the restructuring, Google would retain its search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, maps, Gmail and other core businesses while Google X, Calico, Google Capital, Google Fiber, Google Ventures, Nest and Sidewalk Labs will be divisions inside Alphabet. The company will be traded as Alphabet by the end of the year.
When Pichai was growing up in Chennai, then known as Madras, a bustling metropolis in India’s southernmost Tamil Nadu state, his middle-class family didn’t have a auto, telephone or TV, according to a profile in Bloomberg Businessweek magazine previous year.
He first attended university in his home country, where he received a degree in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur.
-He went to Wharton, earning an MBA in 2002. At Wharton, he was honoured as a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, according to reports.
Google has separated its highly profitable search and advertising business from fledgling efforts in an array of so-called moonshots, including those building robots and self-driving cars, helping to cure disease, developing nanoparticles and extending Internet connectivity via balloons, under the new entity.
Google in Mountainview had a market capitalisation, or value, of $468 billion on Wednesday, with its share price down to $659.56 from an all-time high of 672.93 on July 17. But given the popularity of Google’s brand, and how it has entered mainstream English usage as a verb (to google) and participle (googling), it may only be a matter of time.
Despite a few hiccups in the Chrome launch, he was shortly thereafter promoted to vice president. Here is the information about world’s famous Google’s CEO salary. In 2013, he was additionally handed the reins of Android when Andy Rubin stepped down.
US media described him as soft-spoken, little-known, and a long-time right-hand man to mentor Page. “A key part of this is Sundar Pichai“.
Pichai has been noticed by other companies as well, including Twitter Inc. “(Pichai) helped to get Google’s products preinstalled on tens of millions of computers. Visitors will only find a note from Larry Page, Former CEO of Google explaining about the change within Google.
In 2014, Pichai was also floated as a potential candidate to fill the CEO role at Microsoft Corp. after Steve Ballmer stepped down.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Regunatha Pichai, said his son showed particular interest in engineering and technology even at a young age.
A BMW spokeswoman said on Tuesday ( 11/08/15 ), “We are examining whether there are any implications over trademarks.” and Google hasn’t replied to this issue yet.
“I don’t think there will be changes to product”, said Brad Shimmin, an analyst with Current Analysis.
“Alphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence”, said Page.