Week in Review - Google's cofounders take a bow

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Sunday, December 08, 2019 • By Lucas Matney

Welcome back Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inboxes yet again. Last week, I wrote about the disappointing debut of Apple TV+ and what it signaled for the company’s plans to reshape itself as a content company. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get this in your inbox here, and follow my tweets here.

The big story Sundar Pichai is in charge of the show. Following the formation of Alphabet in 2015, we are now seeing Google CEO Sundar Pichai take over the show from co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. His ascension is hardly surprising but it does signify just how far back the Google co-founders have stepped back since forfeiting the throne. Google was always assumed to be the company’s leading crown jewel, but the announcement this week signified just how significant Pichai’s role at the company has become in the past four years. The parent company of Alphabet has increasingly become the Google/YouTube group, even as Alphabet has grown with more offshoots in recent years. This reorganization could mean that Google grows to retain an even more purposeful purview of the massive tech co. Read more Image Credits: Alex Wong / Getty Images

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Trends of the Week Here are a few big news items from big companies, with green links to all the sweet, sweet added context: Thousands assaulted on Uber this year Though more than a billion Uber rides were ordered in 2018, the company received more than 3,000 reports of sexual assault in the past year. The announcement was made Friday in a report by the ride-hailing giant. Elon Musk not guilty In the case of the accused “pedophile” cave diver, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was found not guilty in a California court. The twitter feud between the billionaire and the cave diver who insulted him in a CNN interview was scoured and surveyed this week, only to leave the CEO unscathed by a jury. Read more

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