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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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Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded company acquired by Google in 2004 (see In-Q-Tel). It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and geographic information system (GIS) onto a 3D globe. It was originally available with three different licenses, but has since been reduced to just two: Google Earth (a free version with limited function) and Google Earth Pro, which is now free (it previously cost $399 a year) and is intended for commercial use.[1] The third original option, Google Earth Plus, has been discontinued.[2][3]

The product, re-released as Google Earth in 2005, is available for use on personal computers running Windows 2000 and above, Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above, Linux kernel: 2.6 or later (released on June 12, 2006), and FreeBSD. Google Earth is also available as a browser plugin which was released on May 28, 2008.[4] It was also made available for mobile viewers on the iPhone OS on October 28, 2008, as a free download from the App Store, and is available to Android users as a free app in the Google Play store. In addition to releasing an updated Keyhole based client, Google also added the imagery from the Earth database to their web-based mapping software, Google Maps. The release of Google Earth in June 2005 to the public caused a more than tenfold increase in media coverage on virtual globes between 2004 and 2005,[5] driving public interest in geospatial technologies and applications. As of October 2011, Google Earth has been downloaded more than a billion times.[6][7]

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Lawrence "Larry" Page[8] (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google Inc. with Sergey Brin, and is the CEO of Alphabet Inc, which wholly owns the company.[9] Page is the inventor of PageRank, Google's best-known search ranking algorithm.[10] As of November 2014, Google has 55,600 employees and operates in more than 40 countries.[11][12][13][14][15]

Page is a board member of the X Prize Foundation (XPRIZE) and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.[16] Page received the Marconi Prize in 2004.[17]

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  2. ^ "Google Earth Plus Discontinued". 
  3. ^ "Google Discontinues "Google Earth Plus"". 
  4. ^ "Google Earth, meet the browser". 
  5. ^ "Media Coverage of Geospatial Platforms". Retrieved 2007-08-05. 
  6. ^ "Official Google Blog: Google Earth downloaded more than one billion times". Googleblog.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-07-30. 
  7. ^ Axetue Team (2011-10-12). "Google Earth Gets a Billion Downloads". Axetue.com. Retrieved 2012-07-30. 
  8. ^ Larry Page (1999). "Lawrence or Larry Page's Page". Stanford Web Site. Retrieved May 18, 2010. 
  9. ^ http://uk.businessinsider.com/google-new-operating-structure-2015-8?r=US&IR=T
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  17. ^ "The Marconi Society Fellows". marconisociety.org.