JEFFERIES: Google has 'the right pieces in place to win the race' to a $1 trillion valuation (GOOG,

If this were a game of chess, Alphabet's Google is several moves ahead. Google has taken all the right steps to get to a $1 trillion valuation, according to Brent Thill, an analyst at Jefferies. "We see Google as having the clearest path of any company to $1Tn, with multiple meaningful opportunities (both near and longer-term) in play," Thill wrote in a note. The $650 billion tech giant has put itself in front of the shifts in mobile, video and cloud computing, setting itself...