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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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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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Google shares up more than 5% in after-hours trading after Alphabet announcement; all Google shares to convert to Alphabet shares — Google Creates New Company, Alphabet — Sundar Pichai will be CEO of Google as Larry Page will head Alphabet; Sergey Brin to be Alphabet president| 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 … | 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 … | Mark Scott / New York Times: |
PageFair study claims ad-blocking, regularly used by 200M people worldwide, will lead to $22B of lost ad revenue this year — Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use — Guillermo Beltrà spends a lot of time surfing the web. — Yet like many avid Internet users … | Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft publicly releases Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max — Want to unlock your door with your face? Windows 10 for IoT Core promises to do just that — An air hockey robot? A door that unlocks itself by recognizing you?| Sam Sheffer / The Verge: |
Snapchat adds Travel Mode feature, which stops snaps from auto downloading to reduce data use — Snapchat has a new feature to stop you from wasting data — Has Snapchat been eating up your mobile data each month? You can finally put a stop to that: in an update being released today …
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Owner of Kakao Talk and Path, Daum Kakao, names 34-year-old Ji Hoon “Jimmy” Rim as CEO — Korea's Daum Kakao Brings In 34-Year-Old CEO To Grow Its Messaging Business Overseas — Daum Kakao, the $7 billion Internet company that owns messaging app Kakao Talk and recently bought Path … Sponsor Posts
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