Monday, August 10, the Mountain View company announced a major change – and surprise – of its corporate structure. The search engine will become a subsidiary of a new entity, called Alphabet. The latter will be led by Larry Page, co-founder and current CEO of Google. Sergey Brin, the second founder, will serve as president. Eric Schmidt will be executive chairman, a position he already held at Google. The company is publicly traded, instead of the previous one.
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“Alphabet is a collection of companies”, Page says in a message posted on the official Google blog. “Google is the largest. But this new Google will be alleviated. Remote Internet companies of our main products are now grouped in Alphabet. “Concretely, this means a clear separation between the business heart of Google and all supplemental projects. This is Google X (futuristic projects), Calico (health), Sidewalk Labs (city logistics), Nest (connected objects) Fiber (fiber) and Google and Google Ventures Capital (investment).
The new Google retain search engine, advertising activities, the YouTube video platform, the mobile operating system Android, the Maps mapping, Gmail and other Internet services and mobile applications. The subsidiary will also have a new CEO: Sundar Pichai, the rising star of the company. Head of Android and the Chrome Web browser, he was appointed last year vice president for products. For many observers, it had thus become the number two of the company.