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Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens

Updated Ad slinger bends to the demands of the DMA

Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 33

Wing, Alphabet's drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster

Aerial delivery kit doubles payloads

Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 15

Google Cloud misses revenue estimates – and it's your fault, wanting smaller bills

Keeping old servers alive is more lucrative than the G-Cloud

Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 15

Alphabet, Bharti Airtel to bridge India's digital divide with frickin' laser beams

Dr Evil would be proud

Networks27 Jun 2023 | 9

Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching

Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer

Off-Prem26 Apr 2023 | 9

San Francisco fog defeats pack of Waymo robo-taxis

Software fix coming – that'll be a braking change we'd actually like to see

AI + ML12 Apr 2023 | 45

Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices

Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired

Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 15

Japan Post closer to replacing snail mail with autonomous drones

As Alphabet's Wing wants to fly millions of small packages by 2024

AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 11

Waymo robo taxis rack up a million miles without killing anyone

It works! Now let's cut staff by 8%

AI + ML02 Mar 2023 | 13

Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google?

As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services

PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13

US schools sue Meta, Google and friends over 'youth mental health crisis'

Updated Social media as public nuisance? Seattle may be on to something

Personal Tech10 Jan 2023 | 50

Waymo turns its driverless cars into roving weather stations

Maybe now San Francisco will allow it to operate in the fog and rain?

AI + ML15 Nov 2022 | 9

Google cut contractors off from online 'Share My Salary' spreadsheet, union claims

Alphabet Workers Union says it's an illegal block of workers' right to discuss pay

Off-Prem04 Nov 2022 | 16

Braking news: Cops slammed for spamming Waze to slow drivers down

You're under app-vest

Bootnotes01 Sep 2022 | 188

Googlers demand abortion searches ‘never be saved or treated as a crime’

Staff remind CEO 'don't be evil' and treat workers equally

Personal Tech18 Aug 2022 | 99

Google Cloud growth slows, losses grow, bosses unworried

Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire

Off-Prem27 Jul 2022 | 17

Another tech giant changes course on hiring – this time it’s Google

'Scarcity breeds clarity' Alphabet CEO tells staff in internal memo

Off-Prem13 Jul 2022 | 6

Alphabet spins off quantum AI 'Sandbox'

Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt sticks his own cash into startup and rules as chairman

AI + ML22 Mar 2022 | 3

Alphabet still can't kill off Google+ insecurity lawsuit

You forgot about this social network? A small army of lawyers haven't

Personal Tech07 Mar 2022 | 11

Alphabet's Wing drone unit inks supermarket delivery deal

Payloads stuck at just 1.5kg, but noise has been reduced

Personal Tech03 Mar 2022 | 30

Google Cloud started running its servers for an extra year, still loses billions

Parent company Alphabet hails first year of revenue above $250B

PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2022 | 47

A global pandemic and ransomware explosion makes for a bumper quarter at Google parent Alphabet

Chief exec Pichai wants to 'help people get the information they need,' even as YouTube fingered for conspiracy guff

Off-Prem28 Jul 2021 | 1

With Alphabet's legendary commitment to products, we can't wait to see what its robotics biz Intrinsic achieves

Google parent hopes to inject AI into factory machines

AI + ML23 Jul 2021 | 19

Another SAP in the face for Oracle: Alphabet soups up financial software by moving off Big Red systems

Nothing to do with THAT court case or lack of Oracle certification on GCP. Nope. Definitely not

Applications06 Apr 2021 | 17

Alphabet Workers Union hits Google data center contractor with labor complaint: We were banned from discussing wages, say staff

Modis also accused of suspending techie for criticizing working conditions

SaaS05 Feb 2021 | 13

Alphabet thanks ads and AI for its $124m-a-day quarterly profit, and comes out swinging against antitrust action

'We are proud people choose Google Search not because they have to, but because it's convenient,' states CEO

On-Prem30 Oct 2020 | 23

Alphabet promises to no longer bung tens of millions of dollars to alleged sex pest execs who quit mid-probe

New rules brought in after search biz settles shareholder lawsuit

Legal26 Sep 2020 | 38

Like life for a lot of us, Google's 2020 was going relatively fine until March hit. Ad sales nosedive, but yay for cloud and Chromebooks?

Does anything really matter when you have $100bn in the bank and pocketing nearly $7bn a quarter in profit?

SaaS29 Apr 2020 | 3

AI 'more profound than fire', Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai tells rich folks' talking shop

And more waffle from the World Economic Forum

Bootnotes27 Jan 2020 | 42

Alphabet's 'love rat' legal chief David Drummond ejects after 18 years at web goliath, no golden parachute attached

Well, apart from a couple of hundred million bucks in stock sales

Legal10 Jan 2020 | 27

Google boss Pichai unbothered as 'Other Bets' nears billion-dollar cash sink in Q3 results

There's rich, and then there's 'shrug off 24% profit drop' rich

On-Prem28 Oct 2019 | 6

Alphabet's top legal eagle and CFO scored $47m apiece in 2018

Lawyer David Drummond and bean counter Ruth Porat get to sleep on beds of cash

On-Prem03 May 2019 | 3

Everything's just fine at Google's mothership: $1.7bn EU fine, slower growth take their toll

Alphabet quiet on cloud business results, other bets lose a small fortune

SaaS30 Apr 2019 | 10

Alphabet top brass OK'd $100m-plus payouts to execs accused of sexual misconduct – court docs

Lawsuit accuses Page, Brin et al of harassment cover-up

Legal12 Mar 2019 | 25

Alphabet snoop: If you're OK with Google-spawned Chronicle, hold on, hold on, dipping into your intranet traffic, wait, wait

RSA No, no, it's not an April Fools. Backstory wants to sniff your packets for hackers

Security05 Mar 2019 | 19

Whatever you've got to say about Google, it can't hear you over the sound of it banking $85m a day in pure profit

Costs on the rise but still added $99m a day to its bottom line in Q4 2018

SaaS05 Feb 2019 | 10

Alphabet board smacked with sueball for paying off Google execs accused of sexual harassment

Shareholders' suit alleges there was a 'pattern'

Legal11 Jan 2019 | 15

Alphabet gives bipedal robots the Schaft 'cos no one wants to buy its creepy machine maker

Even Softbank balked at these tethered terrors

Bootnotes16 Nov 2018 | 22

If you saw a Google ad recently, know that it helped pay off one of its 'sex pest' execs $90m

Revenue: up. Profit: up. Number of managers booted for being creeps: a dirty dozen

SaaS26 Oct 2018 | 21

Alphabet in the soup for keeping quiet about Google+ data leak bug

Investors sue over failure to 'fess up in financial filings

Security16 Oct 2018 | 8

Google's Alphabet hit by Europe's other GDPR: Global Domination = Profit Reduction

Net income for Q2 slashed by $5bn Android antitrust fine

SaaS23 Jul 2018 | 23

DeepMind Health told to explain business model, relationship to Google

Review panel: We don't think AI firm has a hidden agenda, but…

Legal15 Jun 2018 | 14

Google founder Sergey Brin promises to protect humanity from AI

The data-slurpingest, ad-slingiest exec of them all says he’s on your side

AI + ML30 Apr 2018 | 29

Cash-sprinkler Softbank and Alphabet hand over $1.9bn to Manbang

It's about truckers

Science24 Apr 2018 | 16

In not terrifying news at all, Google just keeps on growing: Revenue, profit, headcount up

Q1 tax rate plunge, cost of traffic to feed ad machine jumps

On-Prem24 Apr 2018 | 7

Google wants to gobble up Nokia's airborne broadband biz – reports

Potential deal said to be at an 'advanced stage'

Networks11 Apr 2018 | 8

US watchdog just gave up trying to get Google to explain YouTube's huge financial figures

Don't you worry your pretty little heads about it, says web giant

Personal Tech28 Feb 2018 | 39

Google prints money for Alphabet to stuff into Uncle Sam's pockets: $10bn blow from Donald Trump's tax shakeup

Still made a huge profit in 2017

SaaS02 Feb 2018 | 8

Google slaps mute button on stupid ads that nag you to buy stuff you just looked at

Chocolate Factory touts more ways to blast banners

Software26 Jan 2018 | 80

S for Security is Google owner Alphabet's new favorite letter

The plan is to throw the cloud at data collection and analysis, to produce alerts that matter

Security25 Jan 2018 | 10

ALPHABET TOTALLY LOSES ITS SCHMIDT: Exec chairman Eric quits

No Schmidt, Sherlock! Former CEO steps down, will take on technical advisor role

SaaS21 Dec 2017 | 35

You, Google. Get in here and explain all this personal data slurping – Missouri AG subpoena

'Someone has to stand up to these tech giants' declares VC Thiel-backed Hawley

On-Prem13 Nov 2017 | 18

What just banked $7bn in pay dirt, is stroking its big growth, and rhymes with cold sweat?

Google star of the show, again

SaaS26 Oct 2017 | 6

Judge yanks plug out of AT&T's latest attack on Google Fiber

Judge throws out lawsuit seeking to prevent rollout of broadband cables

Personal Tech17 Aug 2017 | 20

Alphabet takes Euro antitrust fine in stride, spooks investors with rising Google ad costs

Meanwhile, 'Other Bets' group hemorrhages less than before

SaaS25 Jul 2017 | 12

Waymo now way less: Robo-ride upstart drops patents in Uber battle

Theft of trade secrets allegations will be the focus in self-driving car case

Science07 Jul 2017 | 7