Google restructures under Alphabet
On Monday night, Google announced a surprise overhaul that will see the internet giant split up and owned by Alphabet, a new parent company. Google will have a new corporate structure, which will essentially take it from one company that does a huge range of things, to a conglomerate that owns a list of businesses. That conglomerate will be called Alphabet, the biggest subsidiary of which will be called Google. Some of Google's subsidiaries, like Nest, Google X, and Google Fibre, will be reorganized as subsidiaries of Alphabet, while services like Google Search, Android, Chrome, and YouTube will remain directly under the control of Google. Larry Page, who co-founded Google and ran the "old Google", will be in charge of Alphabet, while Sundar Pichai, who was Page's number two, will take over "new Google". Google shareholders will simply become Alphabet shareholders, with no significant change in the structure. Even the stock's Nasdaq tickers, GOOGL and GOOG, will remain the same.
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Google Hangouts for Android Gets a New Look
Today Google updated the Hangouts app for Android, giving it a completely new look with Google’s Material Design. But more importantly, they’ve added new features that make the app more streamlined than ever. Attachments have been simplified, so you can now share photos, emojis, and even your location directly from a tab located in the chat box. You can even select multiple photos to send at once. You’ll also find a new compose button that makes it easier to start conversations, with an intuitive contact list that features the people you chat with frequently. The Hangouts Dialer will now include your ID when you make calls (you’ll no longer show up as “Unknown”), and you can also reply to group MMS messages in Hangouts using Google Voice. Android Wear users can also send Hangouts messages directly from the watch.
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Bell Gigabit Fibe launches to 1.3m homes
Bell Canada yesterday announced the official first-phase launch of its 1Gbps-capable direct fibre-based broadband service Gigabit Fibe, available to approximately 1.3 million homes in locations across Quebec and Ontario, enabling access to speed tiers of 15Mbps, 25Mbps, 50Mbps, 150Mbps, 300Mbps and 940Mbps. Bell’s CTO Stephen Howe announced in a press release that Gigabit Fibe will be made available to a further 650,000 premises in the Atlantic provinces in September, and to 250,000 more in Quebec and Ontario during this year; by the beginning of 2016 the telco intends to cover around 2.2 million homes in its Gigabit fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network footprint. Bell Fibe customers in Ontario and Quebec who subscribe to a multi-service bundle can upgrade to Gigabit Fibe speeds for an additional CAD10 (USD7.62) a month. In Ontario, Gigabit Fibe is available in parts of Brampton, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, Milton, Ottawa, Peterborough and some neighbourhoods in Toronto. In June, Bell announced a CAD1.14 billion investment to roll out fibre to more than one million homes and businesses across the City of Toronto, creating 2,400 direct jobs. Today, Gigabit Fibe is available to approximately 50,000 homes in the Toronto neighbourhoods of Regent Park, the Distillery District, Harbourfront and Willowdale.
The Gigabit Fibe footprint also covers homes in communities across Quebec, including Bell Canada’s first fully-covered fibre city, Quebec City (where it commercially launched FTTH services in March 2012), as well as locations in Beloeil, Blainville, Chambly, Chateauguay, Gatineau, Joliette, La Prairie, Laval, Levis, Magog, Repentigny, Saint-Constant, Saint-Eustache, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Jerome, Saint-Luc, Sherbrooke, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Sorel-Tracy, Terrebonne, Vaudreuil-Dorion and more than 85,000 homes in Montreal.
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