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Events on Monday 4 April 2011 1
2011Larry Page becomes Google CEOCo-founder returns to lead the company he startedLarry Page, who had co-founded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998, took over as chief executive from Eric Schmidt, who moved to the role of executive chairman. The leadership change came as Google pushed further into social networking and mobile with products like Google+. Page led the company through its 2015 reorganization into Alphabet.