After being the big dog of
search engines for more than a decade, Google has decided to change its
corporate moniker to Alphabet. After 17 years of building a $400 billion business
that controls everything from the world's most popular search engine (Google)
to the world's most popular video portal (YouTube), to life extension research
firm (Calico), to self-driving car developer and a host of other acquisitions,
Larry Page and Sergey Brin have decided to rename their enterprise. Add
to that the fact that CEO Page has turned the reins of Google over to Sundar
Pinchai, and many people both in the Internet and on the stock market are
wondering what's going to happen next. Even before the soup has cooled,
rumors are swirling that Google is interested in acquiring yet more companies,
including everything from Twitter to a company that makes pocket toy
satellites. So if you are wondering if Google intends to make Alphabet
Soup of their company, let’s give the pot a stir.
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Will Web TV Change the World as You Know It?
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When it comes to the Internet, there are a number of sites and technologies that have truly been game changers. When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, he started an etail revolution that would eventually put the fear of God into brick and mortar retailers. In 1995, eBay was founded, which would change the face of auctioning forever. Then on September 4th of the following year, a pair of enterprising Stanford University students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google, the search engine that would later go onto dominate web search.
Along the way, technologies came and went. Online empires (such as Netscape) rose and fell. It wasn’t until February of 2005 that three former PayPal employees named Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim started YouTube.com. A little more than a year later, on October 9, 2006, it was announced that the company would be purchased by Google for $1.65 billion in stock. And the rest is history.
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