Google
- Google is an American MNC
specializing in Internet-related services and products which include
search,cloud computing,software andonline advertising technologies
- Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D students at Stanford University as a privately held company on September 4, 1998
- Google's initial IPO took place on August 19, 2004 which offered
19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. At that time Larry Page,
Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20
years, until the year 2024
- In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountainview,California, nicknamed the Googleplex
- Google has been estimated to run more than one million servers in
data centers around the world (as of 2007) and to process over one
billion search requests and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data
each day (as of 2009)
- By January 2014, Google's market capitalization had grown to $397 billion
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