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...Silver Lake has also invested previously in Verily, an Alphabet healthcare subsidiary, while drugs discovery subsidiary Calico has a development partnership with AbbVie, making those other candidates for...
...Mr Pichai pointed to the way Alphabet’s Verily and Calico healthcare arms had partnered with other big companies as a model of what he hoped to do with other divisions....
...As head of Alphabet, Mr Pichai will also take over the running of the company’s “other bets” — a collection of “moonshot” technology projects that include the Waymo driverless car unit and Calico, a healthcare...
...It is not yet clear how Dr Feinberg’s work will fit with health projects in other areas of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which includes Verily, a life sciences division, and Calico, a unit researching...
...These businesses also include Calico, the biotech group, and Waymo, Alphabet’s driverless cars unit....
...Brin is president of Alphabet, the umbrella organisation that encompasses Google — which he co-founded with chief executive Larry Page — as well as its autonomous car unit Waymo, life sciences venture Calico...
...Google’s Calico subsidiary and Human Longevity, started by genomics pioneer Craig Venter, are looking to extend life by finding new ways to treat diseases associated with old age....
...Businesses such as Calico, Nest, and Fiber, as well as its investing arms, such as Google Ventures and Google Capital, and incubator projects, such as Google X, will be managed separately from the Google...
...That puts it on a more direct collision path with Calico, though Mr Maris says he does not discuss investment ideas with Mr Levinson....
Radical restructuring plan will see search engine company become subsidiary
...These include “smart city” venture Sidewalk Labs; “smart home” company Nest; biotech arm Calico; and Google Life Sciences....
....* Google may have staked even more on Calico, its secretive wholly owned start-up aimed at tackling diseases associated with ageing....
...Google inked a deal in March to develop surgical robots with Johnson & Johnson, an agreement that followed its investments in 23andMe, a DNA testing company, and Calico, a biotech group focused on slowing...
...Apple recently launched ResearchKit, a platform that lets medical researchers conduct clinical research using its Apple Watch, while Google has invested in 23andMe, a DNA-testing company and owns Calico,...
...Management thinks the new structure will help it to run independent, unrelated businesses — such as connected-home business Nest, health research lab Calico and Google Ventures — more effectively....
...Calico also hired Hal Barron, another Genentech veteran, to lead its R&D....
...own research on the back of the proliferation of medical data: 23andMe, a DNA-testing company that has a bank of genetic information from the 850,000 customers who have used its $99 DNA testing kit; and Calico...
...Calico is one of several start-ups exploring this frontier....
...More recently, it has set up Calico, a healthcare company which is trying to cure diseases of ageing, and Nest, a maker of “smart home” equipment, as semi-independent operating units under their own managers...
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