The announcement was made by CEO Sundar Pichai during Alphabet quarterly results, the company that brings together the various Internet services and research and development initiatives; overtook Apple as the firm increased market capitalization 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 different 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 is just one more step to connect the whole world,” said Facebook CEO on brand WhatsApp.
Apart from the figure achieved by Gmail, Pichai said that 10 percent of responses email service of 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 known as Google–before Alphabet hands of Apple, which in turn exceeded market value to Microsoft in 2010. In turn, Microsoft had eclipsed IBM two decades before.
Apple and Alphabet, which collaborated on the development of the mobile computing, finished faced when Google launched its operating system to 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, which made the series added value of its shares reached 554.000 million, which compares with about 534,000 million Apple.
Reuters
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