Google’s newish boss has his work cut out for him. Parent company Alphabet Inc. named Sundar Pichai as chief executive earlier this month. He has been running the core Google business since the company’s reorganization in 2015. The latest move gives Mr. Pichai a clearer line of authority across the whole group—including the moonshot projects known as “other bets” dear to the hearts of the company’s founders. The move came with a nice raise; Alphabet granted a record-sized...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 26, 2019 16:18 UTC