Pichai says 'Google cares', Bezos 'can't remember' in Congressional hearing

Four major tech CEOs - Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple - stood up against allegations during a US Congress board hearing topping a yearlong examination concerning these organizations' market mastery on the web.
In the midst of extraordinary flame broiling on issues that fixated on advertise power got from uninhibited assortment and access to information, every one of the four CEOs concentrated on the estimation of their developments and administrations to buyers. They affirmed by means of video connect to administrators in Washington, DC.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai attempted to redirect allegations of hostile to traditionalist predisposition and withdrew on numerous occasions to a "Glad to connect with you" answer in light of inquiries that dove deep into the working of the organization's strong calculations.
Pichai wriggled when asked whether he approved the organization's 2016 choice to consolidate information from the publicizing organization Double Click - purchased in 2007 - with Google's own information. Rep. Val Demings depicted this move as one that successfully "obliterated clients' secrecy" on the web.
"I looked into at an elevated level all the significant choices we make," Pichai said. He talked up how Google "cares" about protection and security of clients and noticed that Google no longer uses information from Gmail for advertisement focusing on, a generally ongoing change.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos over and again offered "I don't recollect" or "We are investigating it" as a response to official worries about how the organization may be murdering off independent companies, poaching thoughts from contenders or worker declaration that there is "no one implementing" arrangements in an organization that has become a "sweets shop" of merchant information.

For quite a long time, Amazon has been hounded by claims that it utilizes its predominance to distinguish and go into new item classifications utilizing its extraordinary focal point into inside data on outsider vender information.

Sundar Pichai named CEO at Google parent Alphabet after founders step down

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Google fellow benefactors Larry Page and Sergey Brin have reported that they are venturing down from the position of authority of the parent organization Alphabet.
Google CEO Indian-American Sundar Pichai (47), will expect the job of Alphabet CEO, making him one of the most dominant corporate pioneers of the world. Considered as a noteworthy shakeup in the Silicon Valley organization, a declaration in such manner was made by Page and Brin in a letter to the organization representatives, which likewise incorporated an announcement from Pichai.
With Alphabet presently settled, and Google and 'Other Bets' working adequately as free organizations, it's the regular time to disentangle our administration structure, composed the two Google prime supporters. "We've never been ones to clutch the board jobs when we believe there's a superior method to run the organization," they said.
"Also, Alphabet and Google never again need two CEOs and a President. Going ahead, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. He will be the official mindful and responsible for driving Google, and dealing with Alphabet's interest in our arrangement of Other Bets," said Page and Brin.
"We are profoundly dedicated to Google and Alphabet as long as possible, and will remain effectively included as Board individuals, investors and fellow benefactors. Moreover, we intend to keep chatting with Sundar normally, particularly on subjects we're enthusiastic about!" they composed.

In his announcement, Pichai clarified that the progress won't influence the Alphabet structure or the work they do everyday. "I will keep on being extremely centered around Google and the profound work we're doing to push the limits of registering and assemble a progressively supportive Google for everybody," he composed.....Read More

Pichai a brilliant student who never showed off: IIT professor

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Sundar Pichai, the new CEO of the core business of Google, was a shy but brilliant student who never showed off his knowledge unnecessarily, recalls his teacher at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
The Chennai-born Pichai, then known by his full name Pichai Sundararajan, cleared the IIT entrance test in 1989 and enrolled for a four-year undergraduate course in metallurgical and materials engineering.
"He passed out in 1993 with a B.Tech (honours) degree. Being the topper, he was awarded the Bidhan Chandra Roy Memorial silver medal," Sanat Kumar Roy, professor in the institute's metallurgical and materials engineering department, told IANS over phone.
Roy, who taught metallurgical thermodynamics to Pichai, said he showed a keen interest in electronics material and did his final year thesis on the subject.
He was shy, calm and quiet, and "very, very brilliant".
"Such was his brilliance, that it was very much evident that he wanted to do something different. His interest in material sciences was visible from the second year itself. He alone opted for electronic material in his batch," recalled Roy, himself an IIT alumnus.
Pichai, who came from an ordinary middle class family was "unquestionably intelligent".

 In August, 1993, Pichai left for US, where he joined Stanford University and completed an MS course in material sciences and engineering and an AMBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was adjudged a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar...Read More