Technology Alphabet execs Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down; Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes over
Google says its quantum computer did a 10,000-year calculation in 200 seconds
Google claims it has designed a machine that needs only 200 seconds to solve a problem that would take the world's fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to figure out. © Erik Lucero/Google Photograph of the Sycamore processor. The speed achieved by the computer represents a breakthrough called "quantum supremacy," according to a blog post from the company and an accompanying article in the scientific journal Nature.
SAN FRANCISCO — Larry Page and Sergey Brin , the two Stanford University graduate students who founded Google more than two decades ago, said they were stepping down from executive roles at Google ’s parent company, Alphabet .
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced Tuesday that they are stepping down from their roles as CEO and president, respectively, at Google parent Alphabet. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will become CEO of Alphabet, and retain his current role at Google.

It marks the end of an era for Google. Page and Brin co-founded the search giant in 1998. They created Alphabet in 2015 as a holding company that includes Google.
Page and Brin published a blog post explaining their rationale for today’s announcement. From the post:
Today, in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost. While it has been a tremendous privilege to be deeply involved in the day-to-day management of the company for so long, we believe it’s time to assume the role of proud parents—offering advice and love, but not daily nagging!
Leaked audio captures Sundar Pichai discussing leaks at Google
Tonight the Washington Post has published audio from a Google all-hands meeting that took place on Thursday, as execs responded to employee questions about a number of issues. Those include the hiring of a former Department of Homeland Security staffer who publicly defended a later version of the administration's "travel ban" on citizens of several predominantly Muslim nations, as well as a recent Chrome extension for employees it rolled out that staffers considered a "spy tool."While Pichai called trust "one the most foundational things for the company," he called out the trouble with "transparency at scale, how to do it.
Alphabet CEO Larry Page announced Tuesday that he will step down from the position. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take over as CEO of the parent company in addition to his current role. Here is the full letter from Page and co-founder Sergey Brin
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take over as CEO as Alphabet , Google 's parent company, while maintaining his role as CEO of Google , the company announced Tuesday. Pichai will succeed Alphabet CEO Larry Page , who cofounded Google in 1998. Sergey Brin is also stepping down
With Alphabet now well-established, and Google and the Other Bets operating effectively as independent companies, it’s the natural time to simplify our management structure. We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company. And Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a President. Going forward, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. He will be the executive responsible and accountable for leading Google, and managing Alphabet’s investment in our portfolio of Other Bets. We are deeply committed to Google and Alphabet for the long term, and will remain actively involved as Board members, shareholders and co-founders. In addition, we plan to continue talking with Sundar regularly, especially on topics we’re passionate about!
Alphabet's board is investigating how sexual misconduct claims were handled
Today CNBC reports that Alphabet, the parent company of Google that was formed in 2015, is investigating how execs investigated sexual misconduct. Years of eyebrow-raising stories about behavior by top officials at Google preceded a report last year by the New York Times that highlighted a $90 million payment to Android co-founder Andy Rubin after a misconduct probe, another payment to former search head Amit Singhal and also allegations against then-X research division director Rich DeVaul, who resigned shortly after.
Alphabet CEO Larry Page will step down from his position at the Google parent company, leaving Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai to manage both Alphabet and Google under one role. Google ’s parent company, Alphabet , was created through corporate restructuring in October 2015
Alphabet has announced that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as the respective CEO and President of the company, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai taking the lead at both companies effective immediately. Page and Brin will still be involved as co-founders
Alphabet shares were up slightly in after-hours trading. The company is valued at nearly $900 billion.
Under the leadership of Brin and Page, Google was at the forefront of the trend of Silicon Valley tech companies opening Seattle-area engineering centers, establishing an outpost in Kirkland, Wash., in 2004.
The company now employs more than 4,500 people in the region and recently opened a new facility for Google Cloud and other engineering teams next to Amazon’s headquarters campus in the South Lake Union neighborhood.
Day-to-day – don't expect to see much change at all. Page and Brin very much in the background since Alphabet was created in 2015. Pichai has been the face of the company in front of investors, public and Congress.
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeBBC) December 3, 2019
Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit on over $100 billion and have barely given any signal to the philanthropy community over the last decade about what they're going to do with their fortunes.
Taking a "step back" from Alphabet would theoretically offer them time to figure that out.
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) December 3, 2019
Valley Voice - Uber against Google - a duel on the road
Uber and Google have been badly offended. A high-level Google manager must now leave the board of the driving service. In the fight for talent and autonomous driving Uber boss Kalanick switches to attack.
As a jogger in Silicon Valley you run the risk of being run over. Stop signs ignore the people behind the wheel as well as the concept zebra crossing or rear view mirror. Often you just barely get away with it. That's why self-driving cars are a good idea.
Uber is now testing this technology in Pittsburgh on the US East Coast, the first vehicles have already been discovered on the road. The motivation behind this is not primarily the safety of recreational athletes, but economic interest. Uber boss Travis Kalanick wants to cut costs. Soon, robots will navigate vehicles.
The move demonstrates once again that Kalanick wants to achieve the vision of self-driving cars without Google. The Internet company was one of the first investors in his company, until both sides took a public profile.
Recent evidence: Yber reported yesterday that Google manager David Drummond, since 2013 on the board of Uber, his post cleans - with reference to the increased competition. Previously, "The Information" reported that Drummond had been kept away from meetings of the influential controlling body.
Uber against Google - the companies now carry the thing out on the street. On one side is Kalanick, who urgently needs good news. Last half-year burned its expansion rate according to media reports 1.2 billion dollars . There were already another two billion in two years in the Chinese market. The sale of the China business to the competitor Didi may bring closer to the IPO.
But the retreat remains a quirk in the shiny story that Kalanick likes to tell. Uber's valuation of $ 68 billion is now in doubt. Two weeks ago, a judge conceded the agreement with drivers in San Francisco who want to be treated by Uber as employees. Compensation could soon be far higher than the $ 100 million agreed upon earlier.
Kalanick aggressively recruits employees
Many hurdles for Uber lie beyond technology, among legislators and regulators. In Pittsburgh, two professionals behind the wheel will oversee the systems. To what extent the cars are actually autonomous in the almost incalculable inner-city traffic remains to be seen.
The choice of the test location is no coincidence. Uber cooperates with robotics experts from local Carnegie Mellon University. Pioneer Sebastian Thrun, who developed the first autonomous vehicle for Google, spent seven years researching at the university. Chris Urmson, longtime head of Google's Auto Project, studied there. The former head of the robotic department of the university, John Barnes, now works at Uber.
Hardly any other CEO in the Valley currently advertises as aggressively coworkers on Google as Kalanick. He wants to become independent of Google's omnipresent mapping service. Dominik Graf, formerly of Google Maps, where he made the map software iPhone-ready, is now responsible for the complicated mathematics behind Uber's success algorithm, which brings together drivers and passengers and sets the price.
Also Brian McClendon, pioneer of Google Maps, and his colleague Manik Gupta switched to Uber. In August, Google also lost the longtime boss of the team around the autonomous car, Urmson. Former Google employee Alexander Levandowski and three other colleagues founded Otto, which builds autonomous truck technology and was also recently swallowed by Uber.
That was a pretty smart move from Kalanick. He has canceled the cooperation with Google and secures the valuable talents just in other ways. In view of the better predictability of the scenarios for autonomous vehicles on the highway, the technology of start-up Otto should be marketable earlier.
For Google on the other hand, that's bad news. For seven years - as long as Uber exists - the company is already screwing on its self-driving car. It is easy to find frustration with the ambitious Valley technologists when development and market maturity are not progressing fast enough and churn begins.
Perhaps the prospect of stock packages for Uber's IPO is exciting. Maybe it was just annoying the cute colorful office design. In any case, the Uber San Francisco science fiction headquarters, in copper metal and dark wood furniture, feels more like a place where adults work.
Googlers are leaving the group in droves
Despite the apparent forced youth, Google is no longer a start-up, but is celebrating its twenties. Since the spirit can ever get lost. The wanderings between corporations are not uncommon in the Valley, where the war for talent is being waged as hard as anywhere else. But for Google comes the recent development at an inopportune time.
Yes, Google is a technology giant that regularly generates billions in sales. But a new foothold next to the lucrative business with the search is still not in sight. The founding duo Larry Page and Sergey Brin have ordered the corporation with the reform in alphabetical cost control.
Above all, it concerns the "Other Bets", which regularly mete out the consolidated result with a loss of 3.6 billion dollars in 2015 and a further 859 million in the last quarter. In addition to the secret research laboratory X, this includes the project with the driverless car.
The "Other Bets" need more evidence of how billions in investment for shots on the moon products. Since the strategists go out in recent times, the arguments. At X, for example, Google Glass costs went completely out of hand. The once prestigious project is now closed.
Tony Fadell, founder of thermostat maker Nest, also left Google. After the acquisition, it had become quiet about his company. The industry had waited in vain for innovative devices. No wonder that the Googlers fear that the self-driving car could not meet expectations. They change in droves, for example to Uber.
By the way, the Googlers are also migrating to European companies. Airbus CEO Tom Enders, for example, appointed Paul Eremenko Chief Technology Officer of the Airbus Group at the beginning of June. The only 36-year-old aviation specialist had worked at Google and the government-related Darpa initiative.
Airbus announced the development of autonomous helicopters for taxi operations. The first prototype will be tested in 2017. When a product enters the market, that's part of an aerospace company, so far in the stars. But maybe the idea of removing cars completely from the road is the best idea anyway - at least for the endangered joggers.
Every Tuesday, Britta Weddeling, Correspondent of the Handelsblatt in Silicon Valley, writes about new trends and the digital zeitgeist in the Valley of the Nerds.
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin relinquish control of Alphabet to CEO Sundar Pichai .
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take control“With Alphabet now well-established, and Google and the Other Bets operating effectively as independent companies, it’s the natural time to simplify our management structure. We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company. And Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a President. Going forward, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet,” Page and Brin write.
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