Odd name choice. I would think it would open up all kinds of Trademark problems. Alphabet as a key word in a business name must be pretty widespread and across many industries, both trademarked and not.
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#252Is this purely a function of sharding liability across a conglomerate of businesses? It seems like concentrating Google's ad revenue in a smaller, more efficient business unit is a nod to Berkshire Hathaway's method of business. I can't recall this sort of thing happening in my lifetime, so it will be really interesting to see how this plays out. I also wonder how this would be treated if Google didn't have the crazy…
Isn't 96% of Google profits from search ads only? They 've done a million ventures since then, still remain ad-funded.
Current sources of value != future sources of value.
The price of Google's stock is based on forward-looking prospects, not on current metrics.
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#253The most important part of the 8K is how the merger will happen and how stock will be effected or transformed eventually:
“Alphabet will initially be a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Google. Pursuant to the Alphabet Merger, a newly formed entity (“Merger Sub”), a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Google, will merge with and into Google, with Google surviving as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet.”
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001288776150...
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#254Wow, 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?
Disrupting The Conglomerate.
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#255This is potentially a very clever move when you put this into the perspective with one of googles major issues of being too dominant.
If I was a conspiracy nut I would say this way it's harder for ex. the EU or any other political entity to claim they have any dominant positions as such.
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#256Looking forward to https://abc.xyz/soup/
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#257So all google divisions are now individual companies inside a conglomerated called Alphabet where Larry is the CEO and Sergei the President. Sundar Pichai is now the new CEO of Google. Is that right? Why do you think they are moving this way? Regulations? Taxes? What about Eric Schmidt? I don't know much about trading, but look at that "after hours" spike! http://postimg.org/image/ho5ecyr99/ EDIT: All google subsidia…
I hope Eric Schmidt won't manage Google Talk / Hangouts anymore. Then there will be a chance of fixing this mess back. UPDATE: Hm. Judging by downvotes, some folks here liked the fact that he killed XMPP federation of Google Talk and didn't propose Hangouts as an alternative open protocol. What an achievement.
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#258>> Susan is doing a great job as CEO, running a strong brand and driving incredible growth. Is this supposed to say Sundar? Kind of an awkward mistake to make.
Sorry you're being downvoted. I wasn't sure who Susan was either and came to the comments for clarification.
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although what often happens is that now divisions compete against either in suboptimal ways. Search and Maps are separate? Great, until Search decides maps are really cool and starts building their own version, again. It takes a strong hand at the top to prevent division heads from viewing their peers as rivals.
I'm pretty sure Search and Maps will still be operating under the Google organization. They're just spinning off their more "wacky" projects that aren't directly related to Internet technology.
Agreed, though it's not the wacky stuff that's drawing the ire of antitrust regs.
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#260Hey Larry, Sergey. If you need a Z, I've got Zission: http://zission.com.
Let's discuss ;)