Anonymous ID: 262f7b Aug. 16, 2018, 12:35 p.m. No.2631144   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1185

Has anyone come across this before??

 

Q uses "alphabet companies" in many drops.

 

What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main internet products contained in Alphabet instead. What do we mean by far afield? Good examples are our health efforts: Life Sciences (that works on the glucose-sensing contact lens), and Calico (focused on longevity). Fundamentally, we believe this allows us more management scale, as we can run things independently that arenโ€™t very related.

 

https://abc.xyz/

Anonymous ID: 262f7b Aug. 16, 2018, 12:37 p.m. No.2631185   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1205

>>2631144

  1. Alphabet, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is basically a collection of companies โ€” roughly 10 โ€” all of which are referred to as "bets" with the underlying idea they each operate independently.

 

  1. While each individual subsidiary has its own CEO, the head of Alphabet is Larry Page and its president is Sergey Brin.

 

  1. The company was founded in 2015 after Google underwent a corporate restructuring. Alphabet created a more "slimmed down" version of Google so the internet search giant could pursue other efforts off-base from its original goals, Mr. Page wrote in a company blog post.

 

  1. A number of Alphabet's spinouts โ€” like its life sciences arm Verily โ€” leverage data to drive success. At Verily, that entails collecting and analyzing health data to map the human genome, according to CNBC.

 

  1. Other healthcare-related bets include include Sidewalk Labs, its urban planning subsidiary; Calico, an anti-aging business; and the Google-owned Google Brain, which is working on machine learning projects in health.

 

  1. One of the bets, X Lab, is focused on "moonshots," or ideas Alphabet believes could change the future. X Lab is responsible for exploring driverless cars, delivery drones, wifi-emitting balloons, Google Glass, and a spoon for patients with Parkinson's disease, according to CNN Tech.

 

  1. Alphabet's most well-known entity, Google, is still in charge of Android, Search, Apps, Maps and YouTube.

 

  1. Alphabet reaped more than $110 billion in revenue in 2017.

 

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/the-abc-s-of-google-s-parent-company-alphabet.html

Anonymous ID: 262f7b Aug. 16, 2018, 12:42 p.m. No.2631235   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148745

 

Do corporate donations to the Clinton Foundation count ?

$0.5m - $1m by Google

 

https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundatiโ€ฆ

 

Larry Page is also a big donator ($60m+) to The Vanguard Charitable Endowment - that is Rob McKay's foundation. They, in turn, fund George Soro's Democracy Alliance [1] which fund groups such as Black Lives Matter [2].

 

Soros has given $6m to Clinton

 

Charitable foundations are a veritable rabbit warren of cross funding shenanagins, covertly political under the guise of good deeds.

 

[1] https://democracyalliance.org/ [2] https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/big-democratic-donors-considโ€ฆ

Anonymous ID: 262f7b Aug. 16, 2018, 12:46 p.m. No.2631290   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1317 >>1525 >>1645

World's tech leaders, convened in secret, talk Trump

Tim Cook, Larry Page and Elon Musk joined billionaires and politicos in debating the Republican hopeful, according to the Huffington Post.

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/worlds-tech-leaders-convene-in-secret-talk-trump/

 

What do the billionaires, politicians and tech leaders of the world talk about when they get together? The same things as the rest of us, it seems. And right now that means Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.

 

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk were among attendees at the hush-hush World Forum this weekend, according to the Huffington Post. The tech elite joined a number of high-profile guests at the annual retreat held at an exclusive resort on Sea Island, Georgia.

 

Hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, a neoconservative think tank, the forum is notoriously secretive. But attendee Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, has shed light on some of what took place at the event, saying in an email seen by the Huffington Post that Trump was "a specter โ€ฆ haunting the World Forum."

 

The confab took place amid heightened tensions between the tech sector and the US government, stirred up by the struggle over encryption between Apple and the FBI. But it's no surprise that Trump, already dominating the political discussion, was center of attention at the World Forum โ€“ to which, it should be pointed out, he was not invited. It turns out, he's something both sides can agree on.

 

"There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he's done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated," said Kristol about Trump's spectral presence.

 

Musk expressed his opinion publicly on Trump last October at the Vanity Fair summit. "I don't really have strong feelings except that hopefully Trump doesn't get the nomination of the Republican party," Mashable reported the entrepreneur as saying.

 

Page has not publicly stated any opinion on Trump. Google bigwigs in the past have leaned toward Democratic figures, most notably Google Chairman Eric Schmidt enjoying a close relationship with President Barack Obama.

 

Cook, meanwhile, has not so much taken a stance on Trump as the Republican frontrunner has taken a stance on him. The candidate blasted the Apple CEO for not handing the FBI the keys it would need to crack into an iPhone used by a terrorist who carried out December's attack in San Bernardino, California. Trump has also vowed to somehow force Apple to build its products in the US.

 

The FBI-Apple standoff did have a moment at the World Forum, with Cook given a hard time over the encryption debate by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, according to Huffington Post sources. Cotton has openly criticized Cook over the past few months, but was accused of being "pretty harsh" when the two came face to face. "Everyone was a little uncomfortable about how hostile Cotton was," one source reportedly said.

 

Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

 

The American Enterprise Institute also did not respond to a request for comment from CNET, but a spokeswoman told the Huffington Post: "The event is private and off the record, therefore we do not comment further on the content or attendees."

Anonymous ID: 262f7b Aug. 16, 2018, 12:50 p.m. No.2631346   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Eustatia Island

 

Eustatia Island is located at latitude 18.51 north and longitude 64.36 west in the eastern section of the British Virgin Islands slightly to the north of Virgin Gorda and Prickly Pear and to the south of Necker Island. The BVI are a group of islands located approximately 1,100 miles southeast of Miami, Florida, 60 miles dues east of Puerto Rico and about 120 miles northwest of St. Barts. The island was purchased in 2000 by Mike Hahn, a financier and avid sailor who grew up on Lake Erie.[3] The island is leased by the British Crown to a company registered in the BVI named Eustatia Corporation (company # 1512465) and is entered into the Land Registry as Block 5547A. The head lease granted by the Crown also includes a lease that includes neighboring Saba Rock, a popular restaurant/bar/boutique hotel frequented by sailors, kiteboarders, musicians/actors and creative types. The underlying shareholders of companies in the BVI are not required to register with the Company Registry therefore no definitive information is available on who the underlying owner is. Although the following statement cannot be corroborated by any authentic or reliable information source, it is widely thought among local BVI residents that the island is owned by Larry Page[4] (Page was married on nearby Necker Island).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustatia_Island