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Alphabet Inc. is a holding company and conglomerate created in 2015 that will directly own several companies that were owned by or tied to Google, including Google itself. The company will be based in California and be headed by Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with Page serving as CEO and Brin as President.[4] Alphabet's portfolio will expand through several industries, including technology, life sciences, investment capital, and research. Some of its subsidiaries will include Google, Calico, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, and Nest Labs. Following the restructuring Larry Page will become CEO of Alphabet while Sundar Pichai will take his position as CEO of Google. Shares of Google's stock will then be converted into Alphabet stock, which will trade under Google's ticker symbols of "GOOG" and "GOOGL". From Alphabet Inc.'s Wikipedia Page.
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Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google.[1] Users may access Gmail as secure webmail,[2] as well as via POP3 or IMAP4 protocols.[3][4] Gmail initially started as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004[5] and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time.[6] The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.[7][8]
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time.[9] Individual Gmail messages, including attachments, may be up-to 25 MB.[10] Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Gmail is noted by web developers for its pioneering use of Ajax.[11] Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux.[12][13][14] As of June 2012[update], it was the most widely used web-based email provider with over 425 million active users worldwide.[15][16] According to a 2014 estimate, 60% of mid-sized US companies were using Gmail.[17] In May 2014, Gmail became the first app on the Google Play Store to hit one billion installations on Android devices.[18]
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Ruth Porat (born 1957) is an American[19] financial executive. She was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Morgan Stanley from January 2010 to May 2015.[19] As of May 26, 2015, she became the CFO of Google.[20][21]
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- Alphabet Inc. is announced as a new holding company for Google on August 10, 2015.
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- ^ Gmail HTTPS-only default setting. Gmail Help Center.
- ^ "Gmail Now Has IMAP Support". Information Week. 2007-10-24.
- ^ "How do I enable POP?". Google. 2007-09-03. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
You can retrieve your Gmail messages with a client or device that supports POP, like Microsoft Outlook or Netscape Mail.
- ^ "Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail". Google. April 1, 2004. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
- ^ Matthew Glotzbach (July 2009). "Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)". Official Google Blog. Google. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
- ^ Coleman, Keith (July 2009). "Gmail leaves beta, launches "Back to Beta" Labs feature". Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ Vanacore, Andrew (July 2009). "Gmail drops 'beta' label to woo business customer". Retrieved 2009-07-07.[dead link]
- ^ Craddock, Dirk (5 January 2010). "A short history of Hotmail". Inside SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Messenger. Microsoft. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
- ^ "Gmail Help Center". Mail.google.com. 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
- ^ Wei, Coach K. "AJAX: Asynchronous Java + XML?". www.developer.com. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
In fact, the developer community was jazzed about the technical approach that Google used. In February 2005, AdapativePath's Jesse James Garrett coined the phrase "AJAX" as "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML" to describe this approach.
- ^ "WHOIS for Gmail.com". domaintools.com.
- ^ "Netcraft "What's this site running?" report". Netcraft.
- ^ "OpenGSE Released". Google Open Source Blog. 2009-01-27.
- ^ D'Orazio, Dante (28 June 2012). "Gmail now has 425 million total users". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ "Google finally blows past Hotmail to become the world's largest email service". 28 June 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ^ Frommer, Dan. "Google is stealing away Microsoft's future corporate customers – Quartz". Qz.com. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
- ^ Gibbs, Samuel. "Gmail Android app is first to hit one billion installations". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- ^ a b "World's Most Powerful Women: Ruth Porat". Forbes. August 2011.
- ^ McGrath, Maggie (March 24, 2015). "Google Lures CFO Ruth Porat From Morgan Stanley". Forbes.
- ^ Patricia Garcia. "Ruth Porat Is Google’s First Female CFO: 10 Other Powerful Women in Tech". Vogue. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
