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Eric Schmidt, of Alphabet, To Head Pentagon's Innovation Board

6Mar By PriyankaNo Comments

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Eric Schmidt, of Alphabet, To Head Pentagon's Innovation Board

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has been picked by Pentagon to head a new advisory board on defense innovation. About the same time, Pentagon Press secretary Peter Cook announced on Wednesday in Washington DC that Defense Secretary Ash Carter met Schmidt during the annual RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. Schmidt will be the chairman of the first Department of Defense Innovation Advisory Board and will work with Carter to select up to 12 members of the board. In a statement, Cook said the initiative is an effort to tap innovators from the private sector in Silicon Valley and beyond, and board members will "represent a cross-section of America's most innovative industries, drawing on technical and management expertise from Silicon...

First time, Alphabet Disclosed The Profitability of Google's Search Engine

2Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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First time, Alphabet Disclosed The Profitability of Google's Search Engine

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Alphabet Inc. announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2015. Alphabet easily beat Wall Street's quarterly profit forecasts on Monday, helped by strong mobile advertising sales, sending the shares of Google's parent higher in after-hours trading to surpass Apple Inc as the most valuable U.S. company. "Our very strong revenue growth in Q4 reflects the vibrancy of our business, driven by mobile search as well as YouTube and programmatic advertising, all areas in which we've been investing for many years. We're excited about the opportunities we have across Google and Other Bets to use technology to improve the lives of billions of people," said Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet. For the first time, the company disclosed the profitabil...

Alphabet Inc Changes Results Format to Separate Google, Other Bets

29Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Alphabet Inc Changes Results Format to Separate Google, Other Bets

Reuters- Hoping to provide greater clarity into the performance of its many holdings, Alphabet Inc said it would report financial results under two segments, Google and "Other Bets," when it releases fourth-quarter earnings on Monday. Under Google, Alphabet will report the results of its main Internet and related businesses such as search, ads, maps, YouTube, Android, Chrome and Google Play, and hardware products such as Chromecast, Chromebooks and Nexus, as well as its virtual reality offerings. "Other Bets" will detail Alphabet's other businesses including Access/Google Fiber, Calico, Nest, Verily (formerly known as Google Life Sciences), GV (once known as Google Ventures), Google Capital and X, better known as Google X. Alphabet said there would be no changes to its consolidate...

Sundar Pichai Announced Date and Venue For Google I/O 2016

13Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Sundar Pichai Announced Date and Venue For Google I/O 2016

Sundar Pichai, CEO Google, has revealed the date and venue for the company's annual developer event Google I/O 2016. The event will be held in Mountain View, California on May 18 through May 20 later this year. The company's decision to hold the event in its own backyard certainly could be seen as the new beginning for the company, which announced a major reshuffle last year, creating a holding company, Alphabet Inc Pichai shared the news on social media, I/O'16 coming to neighborhood where it all started 10 yrs ago: Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, May 18-20. More details soon. #io16 — sundarpichai (@sundarpichai) January 12, 2016 Google is expected to introduce Android N and showcase some of its features at Google I/O 2016. One feature that everyone is ta...

‘Walmart Pay’ Is the Newest Mobile Payment Option

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‘Walmart Pay’ Is the Newest Mobile Payment Option

Reuters- Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it would launch 'Walmart Pay,' to become the first U.S. retailer to offer its own payment feature to expand consumer payment options and increase the speed of checkouts. Walmart Pay will be introduced in select U.S. stores on Thursday and in additional stores after the holiday season, Wal-Mart executives said on a video call with reporters on Wednesday. The free service, integrated into the retailer's app, will be available nationwide by the first half of 2016, the executives said. Walmart Pay will be available on devices using Apple's iOS or Alphabet Inc's Android operating system and allows payments with any major credit, debit, pre-paid or Walmart gift cards, the company said. It will also allow for the integration of other payment options s...

YouTube to support virtual reality video on its app

6Nov By PriyankaNo Comments

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YouTube to support virtual reality video on its app

YouTube announced two new features Thursday for its Android app that expand the video site’s use of virtual reality, giving the new technology its biggest platform yet. The app now supports VR video – a format that gives viewers what the company says are more realistic 360-degree perspectives of films. To view it, a user would call up a virtual reality video on the YouTube app, click a button on the video for VR mode, and place the phone in Alphabet Inc’s “Cardboard” device, a handheld gadget made from the standard box material that creates a VR viewing experience. Makers of virtual reality content can upload VR videos compatible with the Cardboard viewer directly to YouTube. YouTube said there are about a dozen VR videos, including one stemming from the R...

Alphabet, Indonesian companies to expand Web access via balloons

29Oct By No Comments

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Alphabet, Indonesian companies to expand Web access via balloons

Alphabet Inc, the new holding company for Google, has teamed up with three Indonesian telecommunications companies to expand Internet access in that country using solar-powered balloons. Alphabet officials, including co-founder Sergey Brin, and representatives from Indonesian companies Telkomsel, XL Axiata Tbk PT and Indosat Tbk PT signed an agreement Wednesday to bring so-called Project Loon to the nation of 250 million people. (more…)

YouTube offers subscribers paid option with no ads

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YouTube offers subscribers paid option with no ads

Reuters- Alphabet Inc's YouTube will launch a $10-a-month subscription option in the United States on Oct. 28 that will allow viewers to watch videos from across the site without interruption from advertisements, the company said on Wednesday. Starting early next year, the service called YouTube Red will add exclusive shows and movies from top YouTube creators including PewDiePie, Lilly Singh and The Fine Brothers. "Consumers are embracing paid subscriptions of ad-free content at an incredible pace," Robert Kyncl, YouTube's chief business officer, said at an event at YouTube's production space in Los Angeles. The effort offers a new source of revenue for YouTube and its video creators. Rival streaming sites such as Vessel and Interactive Corp's IAC.N Vimeo are luring online stars ...

Alphabet has Dropped Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Motto

7Oct By NitishNo Comments

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Alphabet has Dropped Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Motto

A simple loss of innocence or something more? The restructuring of Google in August 2015 was a major tech shakeup, where a new parent company ‘Alphabet’ was set up and Google became one of the seven companies working under it. Apart from Google, the Alphabet umbrella covers Google Ventures, Calico, Nest , Google Capital, Fiber and Google X. It was also informed that each of these companies is to have its own CEO and motto. (more…)

3Oct By PriyankaNo Comments

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Bye bye Google, hello Alphabet

Google Inc has morphed into Alphabet Inc. After U.S. markets closed on Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company that will house Google's search and Web advertising businesses, maps, YouTube and its "moonshot" ventures such as driverless cars. (more…)

11Aug By NitishNo Comments

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A man with @alphabet Twitter handle won million dollar lottery

There's at least one guy who really loves the name of Google's new parent company Alphabet: Chris from Ohio. Chris Andrikanich got his 15 minutes of fame because his Twitter handle is @alphabet, which happens to be the name of the new parent company announced by the search giant on Monday. (more…)

11Aug By AnkitaNo Comments

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The Reason behind Sundar Pichai named as a new CEO of Google

In a significant restructuring at Google, India-born Sundar Pichai has been named the new CEO of the technology giant as the company co-founder Larry Page on Tuesday announced the formation of a new umbrella firm Alphabet, of which Google will be a part. (more…)