Alphabet released its earnings report for the recent December quarter and the results were largely impressive. While the company just barely missed Wall St. estimates with respect to earnings per share, its year-on-year revenue checked in at $26.06 billion, representing a respectable 22% increase compared to the same quarter a year ago.
Google is seriously thinking about building its own city that will serve as a showcase for some of the futuristic technologies that it’s developed. No, seriously: Rather than deploy different tech ideas in existing towns to see if they work, Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs could create its digital city called “Project Sidewalk.”
Google co-founder Larry Page has always had a thing for crazy and ambitious ideas that, at first blush, might strike many as completely impossible, if not downright insane. Page, who calls such ideas ‘moonshots’, firmly believes that Google needs to always aim far beyond what anyone else thinks is possible.
Now that Google has changed its official name to Alphabet, it’s decided to buy the entire alphabet domain name — yes, that means it’s bought abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com. DomainInvesting, which first flagged Google’s purchase, says that this particular domain was created in 1999 and had been privately owned before Google decided to buy it. Going to the domain right now shows …
As part of Google’s transformation into Alphabet Inc., the company on Friday released a new code of conduct that does away with the iconic “Don’t be evil” slogan that was first revealed when the company went public back in 2004.
Attention investors: As of 4 p.m. on Friday, Google will be no more. In its place will be Alphabet. At the close of trading Friday, Google shares will officially stop trading as Google shares and will instead trade as shares of Alphabet Inc. To make matters more confusing, it seems these shares will be traded under …
We’re back! Thanks for all the emails and tweets. This week Zach & I cover what could be Apple’s most important event ever, rumored to be taking place on September 9th with a boatload of new product announcements. We also discuss Jonathan’s trip to Cape Cod and his ongoing struggle with the iPhone 6 vs …
Google’s Alphabet announcement yesterday left a lot of people scratching their heads, at least at first. In the blink of an eye, Google completely restructured the entire company under a parent company called Alphabet, of all names. While Wall St. is seemingly supportive of the plan — the stock shot straight up immediately following the press …
Say what you will about Google, but the company knows how to have some fun. Nerdy fun, but fun nonetheless. Once, when bidding for a slew of Nortel patents, Google put in a bid using the digits of pi, offering up $3.1415 billion. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Google’s out-of-left-field …
Practically out of nowhere, Google yesterday announced that it was restructuring the entire company and renaming itself Alphabet. As part of the transformation, Google’s varying divisions will be split up into wholly owned subsidiaries under the Alphabet umbrella.
