1. The firm also said it would name its new chief executive by May 16.

2. The company said chief executive and chairman Glenn Murphy will retire in February 2015.

3. He returned as executive chairman in 2011.

4. Pichai, a longtime Google executive, took over as CEO as part of a corporate restructuring in 2015.

5. Mattrick, a former Microsoft executive, joined the company as CEO in July 2013.

6. An executive summary describing the changes runs from page 7 to page 18.

7. It was founded by a former Oracle executive, Marc Benioff, in 1999.

8. Iwata was named director of the company in 2000 and chief executive of Nintendo of America in 2013.

9. No Facebook executive would discuss it with me on the record.

10. There are a lot of mobile phones in use in the executive branch these days, after all.

11. You can fire an executive, but not one of your children.