“Alphabet, which took over as Google’s new holding company on Friday, has dropped the tech giant’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ mantra from its code of conduct,” Tanya Basu reports for TIME Magazine. “‘Don’t Be Evil’ had attracted its share of criticism for being ambiguous and potentially hypocritical.”
Basu reports, “Alphabet begins trading on Monday using their former avatar’s ticker symbols of GOOG and GOOGL.”
“Google, which will going forward be a subsidiary of Alphabet, is retaining the creedo however,” Basu reports. “Under the new arrangement, Alphabet subsidiaries will be able to adopt their own motions and codes to reflect their own cultures.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It should be changed companywide, including subsidiaries, to “Do Know Evil.” What else could be the verdict for a company that was blithely developing a BlackBerry clone until their CEO mole weaseled his way onto Apple Board of Directors and then dropped their plans and began to knock off the iPhone instead?
Google’s Android before and after Apple’s iPhone:
