Google

Google Inc. is a global corporation which has its roots in California in the United States of America. The corporation was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.Thecorporation specialises in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software, and online advertising technologies, social networking, an office suite and email. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS for a netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers in production of its high-end Nexus devices and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012. Google also have numerous sister-sites including YouTube and Blogger. Google’s South African office is situated in Bryanston, Gauteng.