Alphabet subsidiaries

Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation. The company began as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where National Academy of Engineering member Marc Raibert and his colleagues first developed robots that ran and maneuvered like animals. Organizations worldwide, from DARPA, the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps to Sony Corporation turn to Boston Dynamics for advice and for help creating the most advanced robots on Earth. In addition, Boston Dynamics is the home of DI-Guy, real-time Human Simulation, and Artificial Intelligence software, the leading solution in the VizSim market.

Envolve, Inc. operates as a customizable chat system for Websites. The company provides Website owners and Web application developers with access to messaging functionality. It also offers a range of customizations, including single sign on, color customizations, programmatic creation of groups and chats, and string customizations, as well as a slew of behavioral options. The company works on browsers, such as IE7+, Safari, Chrome, FireFox, and Opera, as well as across multiple domains. It serves communities, games, forums, verticals, and A-list musicians. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google's labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world's first fully self-driving trip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities. It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California.

Quickoffice provides mobile office document software for smartphones, allowing users to open, view and edit Microsoft Office files with complete document data integrity. Quickoffice has been thoroughly tested by the rigorous quality standards of leading mobile phone manufacturers and ships through major carriers such as Vodafone, Orange, China Mobile, and ATT. The program is fully localized in 36 languages, and ships worldwide as a built-in solution on a multitude of smartphones. via: Quickoffice

Postini focuses on two main issues: security and compliance. Postini states that it handles more than 1 billion messages everyday and protects more than 35,000 businesses worldwide. Postini offers solutions that protect your company from malicious internet attacks. The Postini Communications Suite eliminates unwanted content from email, instant messaging, and the web. Postini aims to increase business productivity. It will also automatically encrypt senstive messages between you and business partners. Postini currently holds two patents in the area of security and compliance. It was acquired by Google in 2007 and now operates as a subsidiary.

Widevine offfers a multiplatform, multiformat DRM and video optimization solution that content owners, intenet video providers, retailers and video operators can use to deliver a branded, high quality entertainment offering to internet-connected entertainment platforms. Widevine enables you to provide customers all of their digital entertainment needs, for life. Manage, deliver and monetize a consumer's total access to payTV, Internet digital media, music and more.

Channel Intelligence (CI) specializes in product ecommerce. Our data-driven services drive product sales online. Leading brands and major retailers outperform with CI Boost™: where-to-buy, product search engines, shopping engines and Facebook platform services. CI Where-to-Buy is the global leader for major brands in 31 countries, delivering highly qualified customers to over 850 retailers worldwide. A featured Google Shopping launch partner, CI has developed a technology to help merchants maximize sales and Return On Ad Spend (ROAS) with Product Listing Ads (PLAs), which has become an increasingly important channel for merchants.

Loon is a global network of high altitude balloons used to provide stable internet coverage on the ground. Project Loon balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather. In the stratosphere, there are many layers of wind, and each layer of wind varies in direction and speed. Loon balloons go where they're needed by rising or descending into a layer of wind blowing in the desired direction of travel. By partnering with Telecommunications companies to share cellular spectrum we've enabled people to connect to the balloon network directly from their phones and other LTE-enabled devices. The signal is then passed across the balloon network and back down to the global Internet on Earth.

TxVia offers the most advanced transaction processing technology for emerging payments and financial services, as well as comprehensive supporting services. Its solutions encompass the full scope of consumer, corporate and government payment applications. TxVia enables electronic payments with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivery model, a fully customizable solution that supports its clients' specialized processing needs. TxVia clients, which include some of the largest payments companies in the world, realize significant time-to-market, cost, scalability, reliability and security benefits from its custom-rather than one-size-fits-all-platforms.

Incentive Targeting partners with retail chains to provide a targeted marketing service to manufacturers of grocery and consumer products. Using its service, manufacturers market directly to individual shoppers across our entire retail network-based on each person's detailed purchase history. Promotions are delivered via any available distribution channels, such as email, direct mail, or register tape.

Sparkbuy is a comparison shopping engine with a focus on consumer electronics. In May 2011, it was acquired by Google.