Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's New CEO, Now Sole Target on Google Regulatory Battles

Alphabet's new chief executive Sundar Pichai will have a hot seat of his own as regulators around the world investigate the company, demanding American politicians break it, and President Donald Trump accusing his rivals of it.

Pichai, who has been CEO of Alphabet's Google for four years now, was on Tuesday nominated for the additional position of CEO of Alphabet, making him a longtime association with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The public face was made. Page and Brin renounced their roles as CEO and president of Alphabet, respectively, stating that it was time for them to step aside.

When Page declined for a Senate hearing in Washington last year, senators left a vacant chair next to Twitter and Facebook's top officials. Google leaders have admitted that it was an embarrassing gaffe for the company. Other MPs also have no benefit from Page's responses to strategic decisions.

The departure two years ago of executive chairman Eric Schmidt, who helped the company maintain ties in Washington, has also left a hole.

Alphabet shareholder King Lip, chief investment strategist at Baker Avenue Asset Management in San Francisco, said the company was changing and facing a new set of issues, including political strikes and regulatory investigations. The email stated that Pichai is not suitable given his overall viable attitude.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is seen as the standard of Silicon Valley's success with the US president, holding regular, cordial meetings with Trump.

Trump has targeted US technology companies, including Google, several times, alleging that he discriminated against him and fellow conservatives without presenting any evidence.

Pichai himself met Trump in March and July. "The meeting ended very well!" Trump tweeted in March. In August he adopted a different tone.

He said that Pichai "was working very hard in the Oval Office to explain how much he liked me, what a good job the administration was doing, that Google was not involved with the Chinese military, that they had shunned me over Hillary Didn't help. " 2016 election. "Trump has accused Google of interfering in elections to favor his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, although he provided no evidence, and no formal allegations have been announced.

A White House spokesman declined to comment on Pichai's new job on Tuesday.

Pichai met with critics of Republican lawmakers on several occasions to answer questions and testified before Congress.

In October, Pichai announced a new job training program in Texas with White House adviser Ivanka Trump. After a request to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in September 2018, he repeatedly held meetings with lawmakers and testified before congressional committees.

Proposals at Google are coming from other countries along the political aisle as well.

Google has antitrust proposals from the Department of Justice and nearly all 50 US state attorneys general. The company is one of four tech giants under an anti-investigation by the democratically controlled Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives. Last week Reuters reported that EU antitrust regulators were seeking details of Google's data collection practices, following several EU fines.

Only last week, Trump's reelection campaign and several Republican campaign committees criticized Google's decision to limit political advertising, saying, "a latest arbitrary rule change to suppress voter information, knowledge and engagement in the 2020 election" Is a trivial effort. " The group argues "Google is reducing the ability of citizens to participate in our democracy."