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.

Alphabet Inc.
Company typeConglomerate and public holding company[1][2]
GOOG, GOOGL (NASDAQ)
Industry
Founders
Headquarters
United States
Key people
Revenue307,394,000,000 United States dollar (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
84,293,000,000 United States dollar (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
73,795,000,000 United States dollar (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
Total assets365,264,000,000 United States dollar (2022) Edit this on Wikidata
Number of employees
190,234 (2022) Edit this on Wikidata
Subsidiaries
Websiteabc.xyz

History change

Alphabet 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 change

In October 2020, the United States Government Department of Justice filed a Anti-Trust Lawsuit against Alphabet Inc over Googles monopoly on Search.

References change

  1. "Google Rebrands As Alphabet". Forbes. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  2. Solsman, Joan E. "Google's Alphabet: Brought to you by...Hooli?". CNET.
  3. 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.
  4. "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.
  5. Kelly, Heather (2015-08-10). "Meet Google Alphabet - Google's new parent company". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  6. "Google Rises After Creating Holding Company Called Alphabet". Bloomberg.com. 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  7. Greenberg, Julia. "What Google, I Mean Alphabet, Looks Like Now". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  8. Rosoff, Matt. "What is Alphabet, Google's new company?". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  9. Feiner, Lauren (2019-12-03). "Larry Page steps down as CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai to take over". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  10. "Fortune 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  11. 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.