Larry Page still has to testify before Congress, despite change of guard at Alphabet: US Senator Warren

United States Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Wednesday that she still expects Larry Page to testify in Congress, a day after he stepped down as chief executive of Alphabet Inc, Google’s parent company. “We do still expect you to testify before Congress,” she said in a tweet while congratulating Page on “the move”. She added that while Google co-founder Page’s title may have changed, he is still a part of Alphabet’s board of directors and retains “effective control”. [caption id=“attachment_7736651” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, show the new G1 phone running Google’s Android software in New York September 23, 2008. Image: Reuters[/caption] Sundar Pichai, who has been the chief executive officer of Alphabet’s Google for four years now , succeeded Page at the helm of Alphabet on Tuesday, making him the public face of a company long associated with its iconic founders.

Warren, vying for the Democratic nomination to take on President Donald Trump in November 2020, has vowed to break up Amazon.com Inc , Google and Facebook Inc if elected to promote competition in the technology sector. Also read:  Nice guy finishes first: Sundar Pichai to head Google parent, Alphabet Inc )