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		sloanesturz on Aug 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Niantic Labs splitting from Google I feel like this has to mean becoming a subsidiary of Alphabet (and is probably the first of many Google divisions to become an Alphabet subsidiary).

QuercusMax on Aug 13, 2015 [–]

Nope. Not part of Alphabet. Definitely on its own, but still partly owned by Google. (I'm a Googler who works with somebody who just transferred out of Niantic.)

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