Alphabet Hires Head Of Policy And Communications Of Google Fiber

Gabriel Stricker left Twitter To Join Google to head Policy and Communications of Google Fiber.

Google has reappointed an employee. Gabriel Stricker would return to the office or rather its parent company, Alphabet. He left Twitter this year as its Chief Communications Officer to lead Policy and Communications of Google Fiber at Alphabet. He earlier worked at the enterprise as Director of Global Communications & Public Affairs before being appointed by the social networking organization in 2012.

Stricker’s return to Alphabet or Google also suggests the interest of the company in expansion of Google Fiber, the venture that has been initiated to provide fast fiber-optic internet connectivity and cable TV to more regions of the US. He announced on Twitter that he would lead Google Fiber’s communications and policy.

Introduced five years ago, the project was extended to only few cities, including Salt Lake City and Nashville. The tech company recently said that it would be expanding Fiber to Los Angeles and Chicago. Previously this year, Google Fiber had 27,000 TV subscribers.

In August, as part of a huge restructuring, Google announced Alphabet as its holding corporation, which has assumed the control over the core business of Google and driverless vehicles, efforts in the field of healthcare, and a large number of moonshot developments. Google’s internet service venture also comes under Alphabet.

The appointment of a communications and policy head for the project indicates that Alphabet might no longer view Fiber as an experimental venture, and it will need the expertise of Mr. Stricker to deal with internet service providers and local strategies.

In July, the new head, who helmed both marketing and communications at the San Francisco based enterprise, announced that he was quitting the micro blogging network, Twitter. He was one of those many senior executives of the company who stepped down from their posts, besides former CEO Dick Costolo, who also left previously.

This development has taken place at a time when the search engine developer has decided to remove Android’s code that are conflicting with Oracle, and switch over to an open source alternate instead. That alternate is still the under control of Oracle, but the search engine operator is legally permitted to employ.

The lawsuit involves Google’s usage of a programming language known as Java, which is under the ownership of Oracle (Oracle acquired it when it purchased Sun Microsystems five years ago). The issue is whether Google was able to illegally copy portion of Java known as APIs (application programming interfaces). 

Google Partners With Twitter To Fight With Rivals Like Apple and Facebook

The search engine giant has signed a deal with media company Twitter in order to take down other rivals in the industry

According to the most recent Google news, the tech giant has reportedly signed a deal with networking firm Twitter in order to build up a collaboration that gives a tough time to companies like Facebook and Apple who have been dominating the media industry with little to compete with.

Both the tech giants will be making sure that a project is launched that ends up working against the rival giants which seem to leave no space for other companies to work in the industry successfully. A report was recently launched by Re/Code which discussed how the search engine giant and the instant messaging site are competing against not only Mark Zuckerburg’s company but there is also the iPhone makers who have emerged with a news app that provides every day information to the users through very convenient means. Another startup that offers similar services to the users is Snapchat which has a Discover option that lets the public know of everything that is going around them.

According to latest Google updates, analysts on the other hand, have turned out to focus entirely on the dominance Facebook has in the news industry and how Google business has to work against the social media giant to make sure things work in its way. It is also believed by the analysts that the media site has been growing at a very quick speed which means that if the company comes up with a news option on the site or its app for smartphones, it is more likely that it manages to attract more users towards its new ventures than any other firm which is still working to get more users to its network.

By the end of the current year, this collaboration between Twitter and Google will show signs of materializing and soon it will be signing up deals with publishers who will be putting up content on site for users to get direct news reports and articles from. The service that both the giants of the tech industry have decided to launch has not been given a name yet but analysts are of the opinion that once that is done, it will be easier for the joint venture to attract more users towards availing the services.  With the help of the instant article feature, users will be able to see the full article which has been published by the publishers with the help of a single click only.

The firms have also decided on making the project available to the users as an open source which will be making it stand out from all the other similar services being offered in the market.