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Google creates holding company called Alphabet with Larry Page as CEO; Sundar Pichai now CEO of Google, other subsidiaries will have own CEOs — Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure — G is for Google. — As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Giving Google Room to Dream Big Beyond Search — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Shortly after its founding, Google posted a document on its site called “Ten things we know to be true,” an effort to distill its unusual corporate culture into a succinct list of prescriptions — the 10 commandments of Googliness.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
The Invention Of Alphabet Is The Ultimate Larry Page Move — When a coworker shared the news that Google was creating a new holding company called Alphabet and splitting off all its non-core activities from the Google brand, I reacted in the only rational way: I wondered for a nanosecond if it was a wonderfully wacky hoax.
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Alphabet holds Calico, Fiber, Google, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, Life Sciences, Nest; Google contains YouTube, Android, search, ads, maps, apps — Google Absorbed Into New “Alphabet” Conglomerate Run By Larry Page & Sergey Brin — Google's been acquired.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources explain how Force Touch on iPhone 6S will be different from Watch or MacBook, and they say it will work with the upcoming 12.9" iPad stylus — Force Touch on iPhone 6S revealed: expect shortcuts, faster actions across iOS — While Force Touch on the Apple Watch allowed Apple … | Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google to launch affiliate program for Google Play, initially movies and music, apps and hardware to come later — Exclusive: Google planning an affiliate program for Google Play, starting with Movies & Music — Google is working on launching an affiliate program for Google Play similar …
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| Victoria Vzyatysheva / Tech.eu: |
Catching up with Viber CMO Mark Hardy; 600 million users, 300 employees and one acquisition later — Tech.eu's Victoria Vzyatysheva recently caught up with Mark Hardy, the chief marketing officer of Viber, a popular messaging, calling and now gaming app. Check out her Q&A with the executive below:
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg Business: |
HTC market valuation falls below its cash on hand; brand, factories, and other assets deemed to have no value by investors — HTC Trading Below Cash Leaves a Smartphone Brand With No Value — An HTC M9 smartphone. Photographer: Pau Barrena/Bloomberg — A 60 percent plunge … | Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba invests $4.5B for nearly 20% stake in Chinese brick-and-mortar electronics retailer Suning — Alibaba to Invest $4.5 Billion in Electronics Retailer — Deal with Suning aims to connect Web shoppers with stores, expand delivery network — BEIJING— Alibaba Group Holding Ltd …
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