Which one of these is the parent company of Google?

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Alphabet Inc..

Key Points

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technical conglomerate holding company located in Mountain View, California.
It was founded as a result of a Google reorganisation on October 2, 2015, and it became the parent company of Google and other former Google subsidiaries.
The two Google co-founders remained as Alphabet's controlling shareholders, board members, and workers.
Alphabet is the world's third-largest technical corporation by revenue and one of the most valuable.
It is one of the Big Five American information technology businesses, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.

Important Points

Calico is a networking and security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads that is open source.
Nest Labs is a home automation startup that makes self-learning thermostats and smoke detectors that are sensor-driven and Wi-Fi enabled.
GV, originally Google Ventures, is Alphabet Inc.'s venture capital arm, created by Bill Maris, that invests in seed, venture, and growth-stage technology businesses.