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Alphabet Inc. is a holding company and conglomerate created in 2015 that will directly own several companies that were owned by or tied to Google, including Google itself. The company will be based in California and be headed by Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with Page serving as CEO and Brin as President.[4] Alphabet's portfolio will expand through several industries, including technology, life sciences, investment capital, and research. Some of its subsidiaries will include Google, Calico, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, and Nest Labs. Following the restructuring Larry Page will become CEO of Alphabet while Sundar Pichai will take his position as CEO of Google. Shares of Google's stock will then be converted into Alphabet stock, which will trade under Google's ticker symbols of "GOOG" and "GOOGL". From Alphabet Inc.'s Wikipedia Page.
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Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.[1] Google launched the service in November 2005 after acquiring Urchin.[2] Google Analytics is now the most widely used web analytics service on the Internet.[3]
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Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American software engineer, businessman, as well as the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc..[4] In 2013, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $8.3 billion.[5]
As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt did a complete re-write of Lex, a program to generate lexical analysers for the Unix computer operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive officer of Novell. From 2001 to 2011, he served as the CEO of Google. He served on various other boards in academia and industry, such as the boards of trustees for both Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University.[6][7][8]
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- Alphabet Inc. is announced as a new holding company for Google on August 10, 2015.
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Did you know that some of the Google related companies may drop the Google?
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- ^ "Get the Power of Google Analytics: Now available in Standard or Premium, whatever your needs are Google Analytics can help.". Retrieved 2012-04-08.
- ^ "Our history in depth". Google. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ^ "Usage of traffic analysis tools for websites". W3Techs. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
- ^ "Google's view on the future of business: An interview with CEO Eric Schmidt ". The McKinsey Quarterly. Archived from the original on December 23, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
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- ^ "April 13: Google Chairman, CEO Eric Eric Schmidt To Give Keynote Address at Carnegie Mellon Commencement, May 17". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
- ^ princeton.edu. princeton.edu (July 11, 2011). Retrieved on September 27, 2012.
