Long thought of as one of Silicon Valley’s more improvident spenders, Google has lately been garnering a reputation as a skinflint. The reality, of course, is more complicated.
Last year saw an ambitious restructuring that created the parent company known as Alphabet. This separated the core Google business from the company’s other ventures. The idea was to give greater transparency to the core business as well as moonshot projects…
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