Alphabet Inc.
American multinational technology conglomerate
Alphabet is an American company based in California. It holds Google and 12[3] other projects.[4] The CEO is Sundar Pichai.
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Company type | Conglomerate and public holding company[1][2] |
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GOOG, GOOGL (NASDAQ) | |
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Headquarters | United States |
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Revenue | 307,394,000,000 United States dollar (2023) ![]() |
84,293,000,000 United States dollar (2023) ![]() | |
73,795,000,000 United States dollar (2023) ![]() | |
Total assets | 365,264,000,000 United States dollar (2022) ![]() |
Number of employees | 190,234 (2022) ![]() |
Subsidiaries | |
Website | abc |
History
changeAlphabet was founded as a Google parent holding company on August 10, 2015.[5] It included 9 businesses.[6][7][8]
On December 3, 2019, the Google CEO Sundar Pichai became the Alphabet CEO too.[9]
That year the company was ranked #15 on the Fortune 500 list of global US corporations by revenue.[10]
In 2020, Alphabet net income was $40,269 million.
On January 16, 2020, Alphabet reached a $1 trillion market value.[11]
Critics
changeIn October 2020, the United States Government Department of Justice filed a Anti-Trust Lawsuit against Alphabet Inc over Googles monopoly on Search.
References
change- ↑ "Google Rebrands As Alphabet". Forbes. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ↑ Solsman, Joan E. "Google's Alphabet: Brought to you by...Hooli?". CNET.
- ↑ Hartmans, Avery; Meisenzahl, Mary. "All the companies and divisions under Google's parent company, Alphabet, which just made yet another shake-up to its structure". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ↑ "Google's Loon brings internet-by-balloon to Kenya - BBC News". BBC. 2018-07-19. Archived from the original on 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ↑ Kelly, Heather (2015-08-10). "Meet Google Alphabet - Google's new parent company". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ↑ "Google Rises After Creating Holding Company Called Alphabet". Bloomberg.com. 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ↑ Greenberg, Julia. "What Google, I Mean Alphabet, Looks Like Now". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ↑ Rosoff, Matt. "What is Alphabet, Google's new company?". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ↑ Feiner, Lauren (2019-12-03). "Larry Page steps down as CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai to take over". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ↑ "Fortune 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ↑ Ramkumar, Amrith (2020-01-16). "Alphabet Becomes Fourth U.S. Company to Reach $1 Trillion Market Value". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-10-04.