HISB94H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sundar Pichai, Mountain View, California, Sergey Brin
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Google llc is an american multinational technology company that specializes in internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the big four technology companies, alongside amazon, Google was founded in september 1998 by larry page and sergey brin while they were ph. d. students at. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. California privately held company on september 4, 1998, in california. Google was then reincorporated in delaware on october 22, 2002. An initial public offering took place on august 19, 2004, and google moved to its headquarters in mountain view, california, nicknamed the googleplex. Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called alphabet inc. Google is alphabet"s leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for alphabet"s.
