Google X Has a New Logo! And Revenue? Nah.
January 13, 2016
More on the Alphabet Google front this morning (January 13, 2016). I have been working on my new webinar about Dark Web investigative tools but I had to comment on “Google X Has a New Logo and a New Plan to turn Moonshots into Actual Businesses.”
That should be encouraging to the stakeholders wondering about balloons and solving death, among other Google activities.
The write up says:
After the Alphabet reorg, Google X will not stop backing moonshots, but it is sharpening its focus to quell some of this anxiety. It’s framing itself as Alphabet’s incubator, taking ambitious projects, taming them into viable businesses, then “graduating” them into standalone operations. It has also creating tighter criteria for deciding when these projects should be put to rest, assembling a new group — called the Foundry — designed to steer moonshots through the life-or-death throes.
That’s encouraging. More bureaucracy. More after the fact planning. More logos.
Progress is evident at the Alphabet Google thing. I still marvel at balloons, however. And the death thing. Wow. Bell Labs mostly focused on stuff somewhat related to telephones. But the Alphabet Google thing has more scope and sweep. Balloons. At times, even IBM Watson’s wonkiness looks pretty solid. Death.
Stephen E Arnold, January 13, 2016
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