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Google shares debuted in 2004 and it didn’t take long for the company to hit the $100 billion market cap level. About Google: Founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has gone from a search engine to a technology conglomerate. The company hired Eric Schmidt as CEO...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) will now be led by Sundar Pichai, who will split his duties along with being CEO of Google. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page took another step back from day-to-day management of the company, but Pichai's promotion is unlikely to result in...

Google co-founder Larry Page is stepping down as CEO of its parent company Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take over both roles, Page and co-founder Sergey Brin said in a press release Tuesday. Brin will step down from his role as Alphabet president....

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google has come a long way since its initial search engine function launched in 1998. In the past two decades, the company has become one of the most valuable in the U.S. and revolutionized the internet in the process.  What Happened...

Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one. Those two sentences in Google’s 2004 Founders’ IPO Letter introduced the company to the public (investor) world. From its unconventional dutch-auction IPO, to giving employees 20% time to explore any interest related...

Stanford’s standout running back Christian McCaffrey has announced he will forego the 9–3 team’s bowl game in order to prepare for the 2017 NFL draft. While McCaffrey initially indicated that he was preparing for the team's upcoming appearance in the Sun Bowl, he quickly shifted...

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOG) founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, were spotted visiting Singapore. The two aren't exactly hiding in the country and dodging media, rather their visit isn't exactly as public. Recode cited Today Online, a Singapore-based publication, in reporting the...

Don't worry Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) investors, the company isn't going away (as some bloggers warn). The Specifics In a new SEC filing and subsequent blog post, the company said it is creating a new company, Alphabet. Alphabet will oversee Google and a collection of...

In 2010, the Center for Work-Life Policy claimed that 15 percent of working women have slept with their bosses. Not all of those women were rewarded for their extracurricular activities, but 37 percent were believed to have been promoted. That report is anecdotal at best, so those numbers...

You know a company is large when the federal government chooses it to run and maintain a federal airfield. On Monday, the General Services Administration (GSA) and NASA announced they selected a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary, Planetary Ventures LLC, to run and regulate Moffett Federal...

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) highly-anticipated Goolge Glass will be available to individual's whose eyesight's might not be 20/20 vision. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the search engine is in talks with VSP Global, a nationwide vision benefits provider that also makes frames and...

One media outlet ran a headline (that it later changed) that read, “mystery solved.” That’s might be a bit premature, but it is safe to say that the details behind that mystery barge moored in San Francisco Bay is almost certainly a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) project. Once the rumor-mill-reporters...

There’s a large structure under construction on a barge docked in San Francisco bay that has become the object of much speculation. An increasing amount of people are coming forward saying that it likely belongs to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Does Google own it and if so, what is it? There are two...

Privacy issues aside, many believe that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Glass makes you look like a dork. Google seems to agree but wants to convince you that looking dorky is a fashion statement. According to The Atlantic, the September issue of Vogue magazine will feature Glass in a 12-page spread...

Yes, it’s true. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin is investing in meat but it’s not cows, farms and the country fair. It’s far more scientific than that. Brin is investing $332,000 into synthetic meat. It’s easy to poke fun at such an endeavor but when you read about it, it’s no...