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Google's Plan for a New Operating Structure August, 2015
Google announced the creation of Alphabet, mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down.
Search, Maps, YouTube, Gmail, Android, Ads, Apps, Nest, Calico, Google Life Sciences, Google X (Research at Google), Glass, Wing - Drone Delivery, Loon - Internet by Baloon, Google Capital, Google Ventures, Sidewalk, Google Fiber.
Google X:
Google X is a division which encourages people to think big and aim for breakthroughs (moonshots) instead of incremental improvements. Things like Google Glass and self-driving cars.
See Wikipedia
and Thinking big: Larry Page talks moon shots
Stock:
Two classes of shares will continue to trade on Nasdaq as GOOGL (Class A) and
GOOG (Class C).
Google split its stock in April 2014, which created the A and C shares.
See GOOG or GOOGL: Which Google Should You Buy? - investopedia.com
Google's Market Cap of $455 Billion is number 2 behind Apple's $683 B.
It grew 15% from August 2014 to August 2015.
Google is the most visited web site with over 200 million people per month in the US and over 1 Trillion worldwide visitors. YouTube is #2 with over 184 million US visitors per month.
Links:
Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure - Investor Relations - investor.google.com
Life at Google - Google Careers
Meet Alphabet - Google's new parent company - Aug. 10, 2015 - cnn.com
Meet Alphabet, The New Conglomerate Absorbing Google That's Run By Larry Page & Sergey Brin
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