Alphabet. The word reminds you of the English chain of letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, etc., but Google\u2019s new parent company this week adds a new connotation to this word. On Monday, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced that Google as consumers have known it will now become one of many companies under the umbrella of a new conglomerate, called \u201cAlphabet.\u201d Nest, the smart thermostat company, alongside of the company\u2019s other projects (this most likely includes the new Google Auto self-driving car company) such as Google\u2019s X Labs, Fiber, Ventures, Sidewalks, and Calico, will become separate companies that operate independently from Google.<\/p>\n
YouTube, Search, Google Adwords, Gmail, and Android will remain under Google, with Google becoming more of a mobile company than anything else. Google founders Page and Brin will leave Google in the capable hands of 43-year-old Sundar Pichai (who is now Google CEO). Page will serve as CEO of Alphabet, with Brin serving as President of the company.<\/p>\n
This restructuring has already made the Android owner\u00a0more profitable than ever before, with the company\u2019s stock market value climbing by a whopping $28 billion shortly after the announcement.<\/p>\n
All the attention from the search engine giant’s\u00a0new \u201cAlphabet\u201d conglomerate, where \u201cC\u201d is for \u201cCalico,\u201d \u201cG\u201d is for \u201cGoogle,\u201d and \u201cN\u201d is for \u201cNest Labs,\u201d has resulted in newfound fame for one Twitter member in particular, named Chris Andrikanich. He says that on Monday afternoon at around 4:30pm, after the Google Alphabet announcement, Chris started receiving \u201ccongrats\u201d mentions on Twitter with statements sent to \u201c@alphabet\u201d (which happens to be Chris\u2019s Twitter name on the social media site). He drove to his kid\u2019s school and in just 40 minutes received somewhere near 1000 mentions \u2013 his phone buzzing the entire time. Of course, he has nothing to do with the new Alphabet conglomerate, but he may find that his Do Not Disturb mode on his iPhone 6 may prove necessary until all the hype dies down.<\/p>\n
As the link below says, \u201cRemember, kids: It\u2019s all fun and games until your Twitter account is accidentally rendered nearly useless by a huge corporate announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n