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Notable Alphabet Insider Makes $35M Sale
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - 1:11pm | 409Larry Page, Insider at Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), made a large insider sell on November 12, according to a new SEC filing. What Happened: A Form 4 filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday showed that Page sold 12,055 shares of Alphabet at prices ranging from $2,965 to $2,997...
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Alphabet Insider Trades $39M In Company Stock
Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 11:18am | 395Larry Page, Director at Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), made a large insider sell on October 19, according to a new SEC filing. What Happened: A Form 4 filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday showed that Page sold 13,889 shares of Alphabet at prices ranging from $2,863 to $2,879...
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Google Parent Alphabet To Now Appoint Board Directors By Majority Vote
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 1:55am | 378Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) said Monday in a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission that in the future its directors will be elected by a majority vote. What Happened: The Google parent said that its board of directors had adopted amendments to the company...
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Here's How Long It Took Google To Reach A $100B Market Cap
Saturday, October 10, 2020 - 11:27am | 517Google shares debuted in 2004 and it didn’t take long for the company to hit the $100 billion market cap level. About Google: Founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has gone from a search engine to a technology conglomerate. The company hired Eric Schmidt as CEO...
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Did Alphabet's CEO Shuffle Come As A Surprise?
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 12:00pm | 557Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) will now be led by Sundar Pichai, who will split his duties along with being CEO of Google. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page took another step back from day-to-day management of the company, but Pichai's promotion is unlikely to result in...
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Alphabet CEO Larry Page To Step Down; Google CEO Sundar Pichai Will Assume Dual Roles
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 6:01pm | 366Google co-founder Larry Page is stepping down as CEO of its parent company Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take over both roles, Page and co-founder Sergey Brin said in a press release Tuesday. Brin will step down from his role as Alphabet president....
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10 Youngest Billionaires On The Forbes 400 List
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - 3:41pm | 817According to Forbes’ annual ranking of the wealthiest Americans, there is a new No. 1 for the first time since 1994. This year, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos surpassed Bill Gates’ 24-year run as the richest person in the United States. Gates’ No....
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Infographic: Google Through The Years
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 11:06am | 315Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google has come a long way since its initial search engine function launched in 1998. In the past two decades, the company has become one of the most valuable in the U.S. and revolutionized the internet in the process. What Happened...
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The Richest Gamers: Drake, Elon Musk And Other Famous Video Game Aficionados
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - 3:45pm | 943Many of us, especially millennials, have experienced a situation when video games received a bad rap. Whether it was a mom saying you're “frying your brain” during the navigation of a "Halo" campaign, or societal labeling of expert gamers as “nerds,” just ...
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What I Learned From Reading Every Google Founders' Letter
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 - 12:33pm | 1843Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one. Those two sentences in Google’s 2004 Founders’ IPO Letter introduced the company to the public (investor) world. From its unconventional dutch-auction IPO, to giving employees 20% time to explore any interest related...
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Founders Fund's Singerman: Larry Page Is One Of The Best CEOs Ever
Sunday, April 23, 2017 - 12:53pm | 442Brian Singerman, a general partner at Founders Fund, was ranked fifth on the Forbes annual Midas List, which is a ranking of the top venture capitalists. Among some of the fund's holdings include Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and privately held Spotify, Lyft, Airbnb, SpaceX and Palantir. Speaking...
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Should Alphabet's Larry Page Build A Relationship With President-Elect Trump?
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 4:26pm | 345Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s co-founder and CEO Larry Page needs to build a close relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, at least according to Adam Zuckerman, the founder of Fosterly. Speaking to CNBC, Zuckerman argued that Alphabet is one of the largest companies in the...
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Google's Robotic Arms Failed Larry Page's 'Toothbrush Test,' So The Project Was Cancelled
Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 8:30am | 354Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google unit wanted to begin selling robotic arms it created to manufacturers, warehouse operators and other clients, but the technology failed CEO Larry Page's test. According to a Bloomberg report, Google's robotics unit had a prototype robotic arm...
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Google To Bid For Twitter? That's The Latest Rumor Moving The Stock
Monday, October 3, 2016 - 8:17am | 322Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) was trading higher by nearly 4 percent Monday morning on yet another report the company is close to selling itself. Bloomberg, citing "a person familiar with the arrangement," reported that Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s Google unit is working with...
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Why Would Salesforce Or Google Want Twitter?
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 11:21am | 446Shares of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) were trading higher by nearly 20 percent Friday following a CNBC report the company is in discussions to sell itself to salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG), among other unnamed technology companies. Here is a look back at what Recode...