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Makani kite project struggles to take flight as cost of other energy sources falls

Alphabet 's Green Energy Ambitions Hit Turbulence

EghtesadOnline: On May 16, Makani released a YouTube video. A camera pans on a T-shaped airplane, with wings stretching 85 feet holding eight small turbines and a tether connecting it to a tall ground station. The plane swoops into the air. It dips and soars, looping elegantly in circles that mimic a windmill, something it was built to replace.
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Publish Date:06/August/2017 | 07:27

Top tech executives to attend Trump summit on Wednesday: Recode

EghtesadOnline: Top executives from Alphabet Inc, Apple Inc and Facebook Inc are among a small group of tech leaders invited to a summit to be held on Wednesday by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Recode reported, citing sources.
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Publish Date:12/December/2016 | 05:34
Project Wing, born inside the Google X research lab, is the latest Alphabet project to be target of financial restraint.

Alphabet Taps Brakes on Drone Project, Nixing Starbucks Partnership

EghtesadOnline: The latest Google drones have just started taking flight in the real world. But the team behind the technology is slowing down, trimming headcount and shelving initiatives as the experimental unit becomes the latest target of tightening budgets across parent company Alphabet Inc.
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Publish Date:09/November/2016 | 10:34

Alphabet Grants Pichai Largest Ever Stock Award, Again

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc’s newly instated Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai would receive a hefty $240 million in performance-based stock awards over the next three years, the highest ever promised to any executive of the search giant.
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Publish Date:23/December/2019 | 11:02

Shares get China stimulus boost, bonds show the strain

EghtesadOnline: World shares climbed for a third day running on Tuesday, as China promised fiscal action to support the world’s second-largest economy and stellar results from internet giant Alphabet underpinned the tech stocks.
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Publish Date:24/July/2018 | 10:35

Google Is in Talks to Buy Nokia's Airborne Broadband System

EghtesadOnline: Google is in talks to acquire Nokia Oyj’s airplane broadband business as the Alphabet Inc. unit seeks to tap into new services and reach more users by offering in-flight high-speed internet, people familiar with the matter said.
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Publish Date:11/April/2018 | 07:12
R&D breakthroughs from Alphabet's A.I. unit are finally being commercialized

Google’s $400 Million Bet Is Starting to Pay Off

EghtesadOnline: New hardware launches from Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday showed how the acquisition of London-based artificial intelligence company DeepMind might start to generate revenue rather than just research papers.
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Publish Date:08/October/2017 | 09:22

Alphabet Finishes Reorganization With New XXVI Company

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc. is forming a new holding company designed to finalize its evolution from Google, the web search giant, into a corporate parent with distinct arms that protects individual businesses in far-flung fields like health care and self-driving cars.
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Publish Date:02/September/2017 | 04:56

Wal-Mart to enter voice-shopping market via Google platform

EghtesadOnline: Wal-Mart Stores Inc is teaming up with Alphabet Inc's Google to enter the nascent voice-shopping market, currently dominated by Amazon.com Inc, adding another front to Wal-Mart's battle with the online megastore.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 05:31

Alphabet Falls on Concern About Rising Google Traffic Costs

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc. shares fell after second-quarter results resurfaced a worrying trend: The company’s costs are rising as it spends more to expand Google’s newer, fastest-growing advertising businesses.
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Publish Date:25/July/2017 | 05:10

Asia Stocks Mixed While Dollar Weakens Before Fed

EghtesadOnline: Asian equities were mixed ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy decision and as investors sifted through earnings from companies including Alphabet Inc. Oil rose while the dollar resumed declines.
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Publish Date:25/July/2017 | 05:06

Google CEO Joins Alphabet Board in Show of Trust From Founders

EghtesadOnline: Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is getting another role: Alphabet board member. The appointment is another signal of his rising importance at the company -- and the trust the founders place in him.
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Publish Date:25/July/2017 | 04:59

Waymo Hires Ex-Tesla Engineer to Lead Self-Driving Hardware

EghtesadOnline: Waymo has hired Satish Jeyachandran, Tesla Inc.’s former director of hardware engineering, as the mobility division created by Google parent Alphabet Inc. moves closer to commercializing its self-driving vehicle technology.
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Publish Date:23/June/2017 | 13:03

Alphabet Driverless Ambitions Looked Stalled. Then It Sued Uber

EghtesadOnline: Not so long ago Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving ambitions seemed to have lost momentum despite the company being among the earliest to put experimental autonomous cars on the road. There was no business plan, and Alphabet was in danger of losing its first-mover advantage to traditional automakers and Silicon Valley startups, including Uber Technologies Inc. It looked as though the company had started another moonshot.
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Publish Date:01/June/2017 | 11:15
Alphabet's mobility division is testing new hardware that can generate a 360-degree view around the vehicle and see pedestrians and cars at far longer ranges.

Waymo Tests Hardware to Ease Passenger Fears of Driverless Cars

EghtesadOnline: For years the Google coders and roboticists working on driverless cars have focused on making sure their creations could drive safely around California roads. Now, comes the next big test: getting regular civilians comfortable passing the wheel to a machine.
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Publish Date:17/May/2017 | 07:01

Alphabet adds patent claim to Uber intellectual property theft lawsuit

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc's self-driving car unit Waymo on Friday added a new patent claim to its intellectual property lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc and requested a preliminary injunction to stop the ride-sharing service from using what it says is proprietary information, a court filing showed.
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Publish Date:11/March/2017 | 24:47