Google’s Santa Tracker is back with way more knickknacks than last year
This year’s version comes with new bells and whistles.
Labor group accuses Google of illegally firing workers to stop unionism
The National Labor Relations Board will investigate whether Google violated the workers rights.
Google Nest donates Home Mini devices to Reeve Foundation for paralysis community
Google Nest partnered with the Reeve Foundation to gives 100,000 free Google Home Minis to people suffering with spinal cord injuries.
Google co-founders step aside as antitrust scrutiny builds
Google’s co-founders are relinquishing their executive positions.
Salesforce CEO suggests Google co-founders run for office in 2020
Sundar Pichai responded suggesting Marc Benioff run for office in 2020.
Amazon, Facebook among 6 Silicon Valley giants that avoided $100B in taxes, study says
A new report says the big tech companies’ cumulative tax gap is more than $100 billion.
Google co-founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin step down as execs of parent Alphabet
Page and Brin will still serve on Alphabet’s board of directors and remain active shareholders in the company.
Google workers, labor organizers fired over Thanksgiving call for federal probe
“This is an expression of Google’s management power,” Duke said. “They are scared of worker power.”
Trump says he won't let France 'take advantage of American companies' with digital tax
The U.S. threatened a 100% tariff on $2.4 billion of French imports.
UK watchdog investigating Google's $2.6B plan to buy Looker data company
Google said in June it planned to buy Looker, which helps customers “visualize data,” for $2.6 billion in cash to bolster its Google Cloud service.
U.S. trade officials finalizing investigation into France's digital tax
The 3 percent tax would be placed on companies with more than $834 million in revenue globally.
Google fires employees who helped organize labor protests
Memo says workers were fired for violating security policies.
Google faces new protest over accusations of retaliation against employee activism
Organizers want two employees who were put on administrative leave reinstated.
Google takes a stand on political ads
The tech giant said it would begin restricting political ads on its platform.
Amnesty International torches Google, Facebook as human rights violators
It said Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their surveillance-based business model because it is “predicated on human rights abuse.”
Google reins in political advertising
Google is making political ads harder to target at specific types of people.
US tech giants answer questions on business practices amid House probe
The House Judiciary Committee is conducting one of several antitrust probes into U.S. tech firms amid mounting scrutiny about data privacy and their impact on various industries.
This Silicon Valley company will pay you $10,000 to leave the Bay Area
With Silicon Valley's tech hub creating a housing crisis in the Bay Area, one company is offering employees $10,000 to move elsewhere.
Ayesha Curry Thanksgiving recipe debuts on Google Assistant
Curry’s recipes will be featured on Google’s tech devices.
Leaks prompt Google CEO to cut down on meetings, leaked email says
The company's weekly town hall meetings will now be held monthly.