The company formerly known as Google announced in a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission Monday that it plans to create a new public holding company: Alphabet Inc.The filing explained that the moved is meant to reflect its new operating structure.
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Larry Page, one of the founders of the original Google, has just dropped a bombshell. Google as you know it is no more. Long live Alphabet.
In a letter to investors today, Page has revealed himself as the CEO of a new company called Alphabet. Alphabet is essentially the new Google, in that all of the different projects currently operating under the Google name — projects that have long grown further and further away from Google — are now Alphabet products. Including Google itself. Sundar Pichai will take over as CEO of Google, which as a whole will report to Alphabet, led by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. All other Alphabet companies, like X Labs and Calico, will get their own CEO who will also report to Alphabet.
On the financial side, “Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet.”
As a result of Alphabet’s creation, and its ownership of Google, Google as an Alphabet owned product itself will be slimmed down. This will theoretically lead to a more agile and focused Google, which will in turn theoretically make Google better in the long run.
Page and Alphabet have laid out the main goals for the new company as:
This is a lot to digest late on a Monday afternoon, and there’s a lot we don’t know right now (is Android now an Alphabet company?) so rest assured there will be plenty more on Alphabet to come.
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Google Restructures, Forms Alphabet
“What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google.”
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Samsung may be getting ready to unveil the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ in just a few days, but the Korean company is apparently already working on the Galaxy S7 too.
Today a leaked document surfaced in China purporting to depict an internal Samsung communication. It shows support for “MSM8996” (that’s the model number for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset) and “Jungfrau” being added to the company’s software development plan for Android M.
Jungfrau has so far been rumored to be the codename of the Galaxy S7. So this could mean that Samsung is currently starting to test the Snapdragon 820 inside its next flagship. Obviously it’s far too early to tell if the company will choose to keep this SoC for the final hardware of the device, but it’s still promising news for Qualcomm.
After a few years in which it supplied Samsung with chipsets for at least one version of its yearly flagship, in 2015 the Korean company chose to go all-in with its Exynos silicon. But things might change again next year, it is apparent from this leak.
The Snapdragon 820 may in fact be fully detailed by its maker as soon as tomorrow, if some past mumblings turn out to have been accurate. Qualcomm’s next top of the line chip should be out in devices either by the end of this year or in early 2016.
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A new report suggest ad blocking software is rapidly gaining in popularity, but the impact on the online ad business won’t be as bad as many fear–for now.
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The human brain is really good at seeing patterns. That’s mostly a positive thing: it helps us recognize faces, spot danger (which obviously helped our species survive in ancient times when our ancestors were more prey than predator), and discover important new things.
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Todos estamos pendientes de que lo que hará Samsung en el Unpacked del próximo 13 de agosto. Ya son muchos los rumores sobre el Samsung Galaxy Note 5 y S6 edge+, pero se siguen sucediendo las filtraciones. Por lo general, cuando se presenta un nuevo terminal, Samsung suele lanza una nueva gama de accesorios, y del que vamos a hablar hoy es realmente curioso, porque se trata de un teclado físico.
Según vemos en la tienda holandesa Central Point, parece que el nuevo Samsung S6 edge+ contaría con un teclado físico QWERTY que se acoplaría a la parte inferior del dispositivo y que podríamos usar como si de un teclado antiguo se tratase. Hemos investigado un poco acerca de este dispositivo y hay algunas cosas interesantes que os podemos contar de él.
Por un lado, todo apunta a que este teclado será lanzado el día 22 de agosto, pocos días después de la presentación oficial de los nuevos tope de gama de Samsung. Si estimamos un precio para estos dispositivos, vamos a poner 800 euros –tirando hacia abajo–, deberemos añadirles 60 euros que costará este pequeño teclado. Sí, 60 euros por un teclado bastante basto y cuyo diseño parece poco cuidado.
Tal y como vemos en la foto, parece ser que la interfaz del nuevo S6 edge+ se adaptará al teclado, echándose hacia arriba. De otra manera, cuando coloquemos el teclado dejaríamos de ver la parte inferior de la pantalla, dejándola totalmente inservible. El teclado incluye todos los accesos, incluido las teclas de navegación Android, que quedan ocultadas por el accesorio. En pocas palabras, estaríamos convirtiendo un Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ en una Blackberry de pantalla curva cuyo precio es desorbitado.
También se han filtrado otros accesorios que irán de la mano de este terminal. Estos son una funda Clearview Cover –40 euros–, una carcasa Flip Wallet –25 euros– y una Glossy Cover –otros 25–. Está claro que los accesorios de Samsung no parecen hechos para cualquier bolsillo, pero siempre y cuando funcionen bien, estos serán bienvenidos por los fans de la marca. De momento solo podemos esperar a la presentación que tendrá lugar en tres días para saber si esto es real o, de lo contrario, es todo una broma.
¿Qué os parece el accesorio del teclado? ¿Os gusta?
¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por Samsung quiere que usemos el S6 edge+ con un teclado físico que no es precisamente barato para dejar tu huella.
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HTC has had a rough couple of years. Sales from the company have fallen 75 percent since 2011, while manufacturers like Apple and Samsung have seen nothing but success year after year. Today marks a new milestone in the journey to the bottom for HTC, as investors have declared the company worthless.
Detailed in a post on Bloomberg, HTC is now trading on the stock market below its cash value. What this means is that essentially, all of HTC’s back stock including products on hand, warehouses, supply chains, factories, research labs and real estate are all worthless to investors. The only real asset HTC has to its name at this point is its cash reserves, which are just enough to keep investors from all but burning the company to the ground.
While HTC executives have detailed plans to generate revenue and get the company largely profitable again by focusing on the high-end of the smartphone market, no one’s buying it. According to Bloomberg, “analysts also now see profit eluding HTC through the end of 2017 and none of the 22 tracked by Bloomberg that updated their view in the past three months recommend investors buy the stock.”
HTC may still have some fight left in ‘em, and along with continuing to manufacture high-end phones, they are also planning to branch out into more product segments like VR. But being told by investors that your cash is the only thing going for your company can’t possibly be a good feeling. Here’s to hoping HTC can pull off a miracle.
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It is imperative that we take steps to implement application modernization — so say the vendors. We need to act now to start transforming outdated legacy applications into cloud-, mobile- and digital-ready business solutions — so say the vendors. But hang on, there’s an old saying in software application development isn’t there?
“Legacy software is fine, it’s just old software that still works.”
That’s true, some legacy software systems are still so well suited to the task they were designed to perform that they are still around today. IBM still proudly makes its IBM System z mainframe and some of the software applications written for these machines 50 years ago are still capable of functioning on the latest ‘sporty’ range of big black boxes from the company we like to call Big Blue.
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