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Google Inc.
Google Logo
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ: GOOG
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry Internet
Computer software
Telecoms equipment
Founded Menlo Park, California
(September 4, 1998)[1][2]
Founder(s) Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Headquarters Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S.[3]
Area served Worldwide
Key people Eric Schmidt
(Executive Chairman)
Larry Page
(Co-founder & CEO)
Sergey Brin (Co-founder)
Products See list of Google products
Revenue Increase US$ 50.18 billion (2012)[4]
Operating income Increase US$ 12.76 billion (2012)[4]
Profit Increase US$ 10.74 billion (2012)[4]
Total assets Increase US$ 93.80 billion (2012)[4]
Total equity Increase US$ 71.72 billion (2012)[4]
Employees 46,421 (Q3 2013)[5]
Subsidiaries AdMob, DoubleClick, Motorola Mobility, On2 Technologies, Picnik, YouTube, Zagat, Waze, Blogger
Website google.com
References: [6]
Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software, and online advertising technologies.[7] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords.[8][9]
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful",[10] and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil".[11][12] In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.
Google on ad-tech London, 2010
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain...