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Google to invest $7 billion in US offices, data centers this year

The investments would create at least 10,000 new full-time Google jobs, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said.

Google starts enrollment for Google Career Certificates in various fields

Infosys to hire 500 graduates; Cognizant among others to have joined the employer consortium to hire from this programme

Will support 1 million women entrepreneurs in rural India: Sundar Pichai

The Alphabet CEO said empowering women entrepreneurs could create hundreds of millions of jobs, but when it comes to accessing opportunity, deep inequalities persist for women

Google announces $25 mn grant for women, several other initiatives

The grant will be provided under Google's charitable arm Google.org as an Impact Challenge for Women and Girls

Zuckerberg, Pichai, Dorsey due back for new grilling in US Congress

House antitrust panel to consider legislation that may curb the companies' dominance; hearings slated for next week

UP Police books Pichai, others over 'defamatory' video; removes names later

Besides the US-based Pichai, others named in the FIR are three Google India officials including Sanjay Kumar Gupta, according to the FIR lodged at Bhelupur police station on February 6

YouTube growing fast, Shorts gets 3.5 bn daily views: Sundar Pichai

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has revealed that videos in the new YouTube Shorts player are receiving 3.5 billion daily views, and the company will bring it to more countries in 2021.

Hundreds of US election videos deleted by YouTube, says Sundar Pichai

Pichai also said regulations over content moderation makes sense if clear policies are laid out

How a Bengaluru NGO raised Rs 220 crore for fight against coronavirus

How GiveIndia's campaign to raise Rs 220 crore for Covid relief gathered a momentum of its own pulling in many much-maligned segments of society

With Kataria at Bata helm, Indian-origin corporate honchos expand footprint

From FMCG majors to IT titans, Sanjiv Kataria joins the league of Indian-origin executives who have climbed the highest echelons of corporates across diverse sectors globally.

Alphabet CEO Pichai apologises to EU's Breton for leaked document

Pichai and Breton exchanged views in a video-conference call late on Thursday, the third this year, according to a statement from the European Commission

Google Cloud rolls out database migration service for enterprises

Google Cloud has announced that its server-less Database Migration Service is available in Preview, that will make it easy for enterprise customers to move production databases to the cloud

US elections: Tech firms couldn't stop misinformation, voter intimidation

The impacts of these efforts by the technology firms have been muted, in part due to the prevalence of social bots that spread low-credibility information virally across these platforms.

US elections: Tech firms couldn't stop misinformation, voter intimidation

The impacts of these efforts by the technology firms have been muted, in part due to the prevalence of social bots that spread low-credibility information virally across these platforms.

Be very aware of consequences if Section 230 is tweaked: Sundar Pichai

Section 230 makes it possible for Google to provide access to a wide range of information while responsibly protecting people from harm and keeping their information private, Sundar Pichai has said

US Senate hearing: Tech chiefs vow to defend upcoming election from chaos

At a US Senate hearing, the heads of technology giants Twitter, Facebook and Google vowed to defend their platforms from being used to sow chaos ahead of the election next week

Google parent moves to a majority voting approach for directors

Going forward, members of the company's directors will be elected by a majority vote, according to a company filing on Monday. The board approved the decision last week

FB, Twitter, Google CEOs to testify before US Senate Committee on Oct 28

The hearing "must be constructive and focused on what matters most to the American people: how we work together to protect elections," Twitter said in a tweet in its policy channel

Case against Google to focus on search dominance, could trigger lawsuits

The Justice Department's action against Google is set to be narrower than what some states and several career lawyers in the department had envisioned

Google's lifetime net carbon footprint now zero, says Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai said that Google has eliminated its entire carbon legacy -- covering all its operational emissions before it became carbon neutral in 2007 -- through the purchase of carbon offsets