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.
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 …
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.
Giving Google Room to Dream Big Beyond Search
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Shortly after its founding, Google posted a document on its site called “Ten things we know to be true,” an effort to distill its unusual corporate culture into a succinct list...
Purported iPhone 6S case analysis suggests stronger, Bendgate-proof frame [Video]
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Lenovo announces laptops with new mobile Xeon processors starting at $1599, available Q4 2015
Lenovo Launches New P50 And P70 Mobile Workstations With First Mobile Xeon Chips — Today at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference and Exhibition, Lenovo unveiled some new mobile workstations.
The Invention Of Alphabet Is The Ultimate Larry Page Move
When a coworker shared the news that Google was creating a new holding company called Alphabet and splitting off all its non-core activities from the Google brand, I reacted in the only rational way: ...
Carlyle buys data storage biz Veritas from Symantec for $8 billion
Private equity firm The Carlyle Group CG announced this morning that it is acquiring data storage and server management business Veritas from Symantec Corp. SYMC for $8 billion. Helping to finance th...
Google shares jump after Alphabet announcement; all Google shares to convert to Alphabet shares
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Firefox 40 arrives with Windows 10 support, expanded malware protection, and new Android navigation gestures
Mozilla today launched Firefox 40 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include official Windows 10 support, added protection against unwanted software downloads …
Sources: Google to launch affiliate program for Google Play, initially for movies and music, apps and hardware to come later
Exclusive: Google planning an affiliate program for Google Play, starting with Movies & Music — Google is working on launching an affiliate program …
Snapchat adds Travel Mode feature, which stops snaps from auto downloading to reduce data use
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Alibaba invests $4.5B for nearly 20% stake in Chinese brick-and-mortar electronics retailer Suning
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Microsoft publicly releases Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max
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Source: StumbleUpon to lay off about 70 of its 100 employees this week after failing to raise new round
StumbleUpon lays off dozens after failing to raise new round, source says — Content discovery company StumbleUpon was unable to secure additional venture capital funding …
Catching up with Viber CMO Mark Hardy; 600 million users, 300 employees and one acquisition later
Tech.eu's Victoria Vzyatysheva recently caught up with Mark Hardy, the chief marketing officer of Viber, a popular messaging, calling and now gaming app. Check out her Q&A with the executive below:
Owner of Kakao Talk and Path, Daum Kakao, names 34-year-old Ji Hoon “Jimmy” Rim as CEO
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Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr ask to file amicus brief in movie studio suit against MovieTube, which seeks broad site-blocking SOPA-like power
Tech Giants to Hollywood: Stop Trying to Resurrect SOPA — Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr file a brief with the MPAA … See also Mediagazer
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