Perhaps the people at Google, don't Google? That's what it looks like as a day after Google's founders named their newly created parent entity Alphabet, it has now come to the fore that the internet domain alphabet.com and as well as the trademark Alphabet belong to German automaker BMW.
The New York Times reports that BMW is examining whether any trademark infringement has taken place. “We are not planning to sell the domain,” said Micaela Sandstede, a BMW spokeswoman in Munich to NYT.
Google's Alphabet made news headlines in India as Chennai born, IIT Kharagpur-educated Sundar Pichai was made the CEO of the core business of Google, as the search giant in a major corporate restructuring formed an umbrella company called Alphabet.
The change entrusted Pichai, 43, with operational management of Google's search, YouTube and financial-services units, the company's founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page will run Alphabet-Page as CEO and Brin as president.
Several other companies are to operate under Alphabet acting as the parent holding company, including Google, a company focused on health efforts called Life Sciences, and a company focused on longevity called Calico.