India-born Sundar Pichai to lead Google as new CEO

Chennai-born Sundar Pichai has been named the new CEO of Google, as the technology giant co-founder Larry Page announced the formation of a new umbrella firm 'Alphabet', of which Google will be a part.

Page announced the formation of the new parent company Alphabet in a blog post, of which he will be the CEO and Google co-founder Sergey Brin will be the President.

Pichai has been named CEO of the new Google, which Page said will be a bit slimmed down.