The company originally known for its search engine officially becomes Alphabet at the market close on Friday

This is the last day that Google is operating without a parent company.

After the close of markets Friday, the company officially will become Alphabet and will trade as such on Monday. Google will become a business unit running under the Alphabet umbrella and will focus on core Internet-related businesses, including search, YouTube and Android.

The company announced the official change on its investor relations page.
"Long-term, this could be a big deal, but it must be more than a name change," said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy. "Non-Google companies under Alphabet need to show a few things – like they need to enable innovation and autonomy."

Google announced in August that it was creating a parent company and that Google would become one of its wholly owned subsidiaries.
Alphabet is set to replace Google as the publicly traded entity and shares of Google will be the same number of shares of Alphabet. The company will still trade under the ticker symbol GOOG. http://itsolutionresources..com.ng/2015/10/good-bye-google-as-we-know-it-hello.html

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