This past summer, Google pulled a maneuver that caught pretty much everyone by surprise, creating a holding company to oversee all the different businesses the enterprise found itself pursuing. While it does not substantially change what Google and the other business units are doing, it makes it easier for the…
Project Ara caught in the Alphabet soup?
The Project Ara modular phone is the most well-known legacy remaining of Motorola’s time spent as a Google subsidiary. Google ended up with Motorola’s massive patent portfolio as well. We don’t know if the pressure of the Google restructuring is getting to the Project Ara crew, but the unit’s Twitter…
We talked briefly with the poor guy who owns the @alphabet Twitter handle
Chris Andrikanich is an iPhone 6-wielding guy who found his fairly average Twitter account completely overrun with seemingly random messages of congratulations and suggestions that he was about to come into big money. Why, you ask? Mr. Andrikanich is known as @alphabet on Twitter, and after Google’s big restructuring announcement…
Larry Page breaks the internet, announces ‘Alphabet’ parent company for Google
In a shocking announcement today, co-founder Larry Page revealed major changes for Google, including he and Sergey Brinn moving on the helm a new parent company called Alphabet, and Sundar Pachai taking over as the new CEO of a slimmed down Google. Page released the news, among other places, on…