Thursday, October 8, 2015

Google buys the whole alphabet domain with the extension .com – Televisa News

SAN FRANCISCO, United States, oct. 8 2015.- Google acquired an Internet domain that lists all the alphabet, from A to Z, and the extension .com (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com), just days after the company was officially convirtiese in Alphabet , a conglomerate that brings together all its divisions.

The domain was created in 1999 and was updated Wednesday after Google comprase it, according to leaked information that the database collects internet domain Whois.

It is unclear at the moment, what is the objective of the new domain or Google exactly how much you paid for it.

The company based in Mountain View (California) does not own the Alphabet.com domain, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW, which would not consider selling it, according to information published by The New York Times.

Google announced in early August Alphabet creating the corporate umbrella under which the company now groups all divisions.

The conglomerate includes Google and other six companies, including Calico, dedicated to research on longevity and signature smart devices Home and Fiber Nest, the division that seeks to bring high-speed internet to different parts of the United States.

The new corporate umbrella also includes Google X, the research division that develops ambitious projects as the self vehicle and Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of Google, and Google Capital, a division that invests in the final stages of financing emerging companies (start-ups).

Larry Page and Sergey Brin , the co-founders of Google, said when the announcement was made in August, that the object to the restructuring is to have more room for maneuver, allowing them to manage operations that are not closely related.

Is provided that, from the fourth quarter of this year, Google provide different financial results for the search core business, which includes the search, ads, YouTube, Android and Chrome- browser and all other divisions in Alphabet set.

Google’s revenues totaled 66,000 million dollars last year. Advertising, both in the search and YouTube, represented 89% of the total.

The sale of mobile applications, as well as music and movies in his shop Play through Android phones, represent the second largest source of revenue for the firm.

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