About Alphabet, Inc.
Alphabet Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate holding company that was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent holding company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. The company develops and provides products and platforms including Google Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Google Maps, Google Play, and hardware devices. Alphabet operates subsidiaries and divisions including Waymo for autonomous driving, Verily for life sciences, GV for venture capital, Calico for longevity research, and X Development for exploratory technology projects. The company serves consumers, businesses, and organizations across online search, advertising, cloud computing, software, hardware, and artificial intelligence applications across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific regions. Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Alphabet Inc. was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.