The announcement was made by CEO Sundar Pichai during Alphabet quarterly results, the company that brings together different Internet and research and development initiatives; overtook Apple as the signing of the highest market value of the world
Almost simultaneously with the announcement of WhatsApp, service Gmail webmail also reached 1000 million users. The announcement was confirmed by Sundar Pichai, Google CEO during the first presentation of the quarterly results of Alphabet, the firm that brings together the various Internet and initiative s research and development that were previously behind Google.
Gmail service is the seventh company of over one billion users, with Search, Chrome, Android, Google Play, YouTube and Maps. Almost simultaneously, meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that WhatsApp had passed the same brand. “There are few services that can connect to 1000 million people, is an important milestone and it is only a step to connect the whole world,” said CEO of Facebook on the mark WhatsApp.
apart from the figure achieved by Gmail, Pichai said that 10 percent of respondents service email Google are performed automatically by robots, thanks to this function in the mobile application.
in his debut as Alphabet, the company was ranked as the most valuable in the US market operations after the close of regular market, to displace Apple from a position he held for most of the past four years; Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook are the four largest companies in the world market valuation, ahead of Exxon, the historic leader.
The change can set the pace of technological scepter -before Alphabet known as Google- the hands of Apple, which in turn exceeded market value at Microsoft in 2010. at the same time, Microsoft had eclipsed IBM two decades earlier.
Apple and Alphabet, who collaborated on the development of mobile computing, ended up facing when Google launched its operating system for Android phones in 2008. the then president of Google Eric Schmidt left Apple’s board the following year.
in his first report, Alphabet reported up 17.8 percent of quarterly sales, thanks to strong sales of mobile advertising and the online video site YouTube. In turn, he said its consolidated sales rose to 21,330 million in the three months ended December 31, which compares with 18,100 million in the same period a year ago.
Shares Alphabet rose on Monday after reporting strong quarterly results, making the added value of its series of shares reached 554.000 million, which compares with about 534,000 million Apple.
Reuters
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