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Re: G is for Google

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Post by rrss1122 »

echelon wrote: post #72
rbinv wrote: post #35

From the abc.xyz source code: Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort http://www.hooli.xyz/" target="_blank" class="hidden-link">.

I wondered if the reorg would have any impact on the stock price. Given this joke, now I really wonder. Are we sure it isn't April 1st? Are we sure this press release isn't a hoax? This is so wild I'm having trouble believing any of it.

One thing I've heard is that this would help them in terms of taxes, allowing them to write off projects that don't make money, although I'm not entirely clear on how Alphabet would accomplish this.

That would be no joke if that was a reason to do it.

Re: G is for Google

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Post by nashashmi »

baq wrote: post #47
akhilcacharya wrote: post #7

Wow, this is really strange. Has there been any precedent for things like this?

i'd say it makes perfect sense. google search becomes google, and the rest of the company (cars, cubesat internet, balloon internet, more down-to-earth ideas) belong somewhere else.

It does make sense. Honestly, Sergey and larry have been complaining about this for a long time.

But what makes this hard to believe is that they actually called it Alphabet, Inc. It has got to be april fools!

Re: G is for Google

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Post by reneberlin »

I'd like to know what margin did the namefinding-company get paid for this extraordinary creation. And who owns all these super simple domains in all the .tlds. And what will they get paid for to let them own them? "Example" was under the near winners but didn't succeed. I am waiting for the artworks to see for "alphabet" in RGBA/cmyk/svg.

Re: G is for Google

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Post by mtgx »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #133

Wow, they are doing letters? Really? Letters? Hey is Eric Schmidt still in the building somewhere? Ask him how well Planets worked out for Sun Microsystems. Interesting strategy, hard to second guess from the outside of course. Sun's motivation was to figure out whether the other parts of the company could stand on their own[1], it also makes it less fiscally complicated to discharge an entire group into the void. Th…

I guess Alphabet is meant to be the PG of tech products?

Re: G is for Google

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Post by TheOsiris »

rrss1122 wrote: post #191
echelon wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wondered if the reorg would have any impact on the stock price. Given this joke, now I really wonder. Are we sure it isn't April 1st? Are we sure this press release isn't a hoax? This is so wild I'm having trouble believing any of it.

One thing I've heard is that this would help them in terms of taxes, allowing them to write off projects that don't make money, although I'm not entirely clear on how Alphabet would accomplish this. That would be no joke if that was a reason to do it.

couldn't they do that now anyway with all being under the same entity. I don't think this helps with taxes (at least not in this regard).

Either way, WOW!

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