Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Alphabet is the world's second-largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable companies. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
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Some of the key events about Alphabet Inc.

  • 2010
    Google's Street View cars collected private Wi-Fi data without consent
  • 2012
    Google agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle FTC charges over privacy violations
  • 2013
    Revelation of Google's involvement in PRISM surveillance program
  • 2015
    Restructured Google into Alphabet Inc. as a holding company to improve management of diverse businesses
  • 2015
    European Union filed antitrust charges against Google for favoring its own shopping service
  • 2016
    Launched Waymo as a separate company to develop self-driving technology
  • 2017
    Google AI created AlphaGo Zero, which mastered the game of Go without human knowledge
  • 2017
    Google was fined €2.4 billion by EU for manipulating search results
  • 2018
    Introduced Google Duplex, an AI system capable of conducting natural conversations to complete real-world tasks
  • 2018
    Google faced criticism for Project Dragonfly, a censored search engine for China
  • 2018
    Google+ shut down after a data breach affecting up to 500,000 users was revealed
  • 2019
    Achieved quantum supremacy with the Sycamore processor, performing a calculation in 200 seconds that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years
  • 2019
    Google was fined €1.5 billion by EU for antitrust violations in online advertising
  • 2020
    DeepMind's AlphaFold system made a major breakthrough in protein folding prediction
  • 2020
    Committed $1 billion in grants to support digital transformation in Africa
  • 2020
    U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for monopolistic practices
  • 2021
    Announced a $7 billion investment to expand offices and data centers across the United States
  • 2021
    Google faced a $5 billion lawsuit for tracking users in 'private' browsing mode
  • 2022
    Launched the Google Cybersecurity Action Team to support the security and digital transformation of governments and businesses
  • 2023
    Introduced Bard, an experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA

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