Venture Beast

JANUARY 4, 2021

Workers cited the treatement of Google contract workers and the firing of Timnit Gebru among reasons for forming Alphabet Workers Union. Read More.

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TechSpot

APRIL 24, 2023

Alphabet's securities filing on Friday showed that $218 million of Pichai's $226 million compensation in 2022 came in the form of a triennial stock grant. The money also included a $2 million annual salary and $6 million for personal security. That latter figure is undoubtedly high, but it's still less. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What does Google’s parent company Alphabet want with robots? Image: Alphabet. One of Alphabet’s Everyday Robot machines cleans the crumbs off a cafe table. As Brøndmo indicates, these bots were first seen sorting out recycling when Alphabet debuted the Everyday Robot team in 2019. Image: Alphabet. Is it going to?

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2022

Amie Thuener , Alphabet VP and chief accounting officer, was appointed to Nordstrom’s board of directors, effective March 15. Prior to her current role at Alphabet, Thuener worked for Google as its chief accountant from 2013 to 2018. Prior to Alphabet, Thuener was a managing director at PwC for 16 years.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Google parent Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its global workforce, as it becomes the latest tech company to make cuts amid a fears of a slowing economy. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced the news in an email to employees on Friday (in full at bottom).

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Computerworld Vertical IT

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Google-parent Alphabet late on Wednesday let go of hundreds of employees from its recruiting team in continuation of its efforts to operate more efficiently as macroeconomic uncertainty looms.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

The announcement comes weeks after workers in the US and Canada launched the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), a minority union affiliated with the Communications Workers of America. AWU grew from 230 members to more than 700 within a week after it launched. That is why it is so important to unite with workers in other countries.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A new Alphabet company will use artificial intelligence methods for drug discovery, Google’s parent company announced Thursday. It’ll build off of the work done by DeepMind, another Alphabet subsidiary that has done groundbreaking work using AI to predict the structure of proteins. Photo by Micah Singleton / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) is calling on YouTube to permanently ban President Trump following a raid on the US Capitol on January 6th. Alphabet, in failing to act, has done tremendous damage: to the thousands of victims of hate and to the world.”. Illustration by Alex Castro. from Jair Bolsonaro to Donald Trump.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Google Cloud sales in Q4 2020 bolstered a second consecutive record quarter for its parent company, Alphabet. Read More.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Gillett, and Jeff Becker Alphabet has announced it will acquire Fitbit for $2.1 This acquisition will improve Alphabet’s health and wellness offerings and makes it more competitive. Author(s): Julie A. Ask, Frank E.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for notable variants of virus that causes COVID-19 based on letters of the Greek alphabet. The WHO has a list of existing “variants of concern” and “variants of interest” that have been given new labels under the Greek alphabet naming scheme. Alpha” refers to B.1.1.7,

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Alphabet on Tuesday posted lower-than-expected numbers for its third financial quarter, where it fell behind both revenue and profit expectations. While overall revenue growth slowed to 6% in the quarter for Alphabet, Google Cloud grew 38% year-on-year to $6.9 billion, giving the company much needed support. billion, up 20%.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s called ASL Alphabet Lens, and Snapchat is launching it in partnership with SignAll , a company that has built technology that can translate sign language. Screenshots from the ASL Alphabet Lens app. The lesson I tried taught me to fingerspell the alphabet. I played around for it for a few minutes and was pretty impressed.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 22, 2021

With it, Google and parent company Alphabet used high-altitude balloons to create makeshift wireless networks to blanket remote regions with Internet access. Project Loon, as it was originally called, started as a research and development project under Google X back in 2011.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Computer scientists at DeepMind, a lab owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company, have developed an AI that has made a monumental leap in solving “the protein folding problem.” This conundrum has plagued biologists for decades, and solving it can accelerate countless other studies in medicine, agriculture, and conservation, to name.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 23, 2022

Sandbox AQ, the Palo Alto, California-based enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides solutions at the intersection of quantum technology and artificial intelligence (AI), has emerged from Alphabet, Google's parent company, as an independent company. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

Alphabet on Tuesday reported a 7% increase in revenue for the quarter ended June driven by the growth in its cloud computing division, Google Cloud. The increase in operating profit, according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, can be attributed to the company’s progress in data center machine efficiency. The company posted revenue of $74.6

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Venture Beast

JULY 30, 2020

Google parent Alphabet had a 2% drop in sales in Q2 2020, but outlook at the end of the quarter showed some optimistic upward trends. Read More.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Alphabet has spun off a new company called Isomorphic Labs which seeks to use artificial intelligence to discover new pharmaceutical drugs. The commercial venture will reportedly build off of advancements made by Alphabet’s DeepMind, which used a model called AlphaFold2 to predict the shape of proteins in the human… Read more.

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Gizmodo

JULY 7, 2020

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has deployed a fleet of internet-delivering, high-altitude balloons in Kenya, an initiative that the company’s CEO said will be “the first of many” future commercial deployments in other parts of the world. Read more.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 26, 2021

The milestone will be reached just as the Alphabet-owned company comes close to its second anniversary after a pilot launch in Logan, Australia, home to more than 300,000 people. Delivery drone company Wing today said it would likely hit over 100,000 customer deliveries by the end of this week.

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The Verge

APRIL 9, 2021

More than 500 Alphabet employees have signed an open letter demanding Google stop protecting the subjects of harassment complaints. This is a long pattern where Alphabet protects the harasser instead of protecting the person harmed by the harassment,” the letter reads. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

Alphabet shareholder Trillium Asset Management is pushing Google to adopt better whistleblower protections in light of the firing of prominent AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru. Trillium owns 63,078 Alphabet shares— a stake currently worth roughly $140 million. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechSpot

JULY 31, 2020

Alphabet's latest earnings report is in, and it looks like the company registered its first decline in 22 years, mostly as a direct result of Covid-19's impact on advertising spend.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Google parent company Alphabet warned in last quarter that it was expecting to see the impact of coronavirus in the second quarter results, and it did: the company saw its first revenue decline in its history. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. But it managed to beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations. billion, versus the $37.4

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Forrester IT

JULY 11, 2022

Without further ado, the semi-finalists are (in alphabetical order): Arch Insurance Group Inc. Announcing the seven semi-finalists among those companies nominated for the prestigious Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award 2022 for North America! Blue Cross NC […].

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TechSpot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Today, more than 225 Google employees announced they've created a union, which is a first for parent company Alphabet and a. Last December, Google fired AI researcher Timnit Gebru after she tried to be outspoken about unethical AI, which elevated public criticism of the company as well as internal dissent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Even though Google Cloud revenue growth showed signs of slowing, it nevertheless provided something of a bright spot as parent company Alphabet — hit hard by the tightening of customer budgets — posted a year-over-year decline in net income for its 2022 fourth quarter. Fourth-quarter gross revenue for Alphabet was $76.05 billion to $2.3

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Google parent company Alphabet hit a new record for annual revenue in 2021, showing no ill effects from the lingering coronavirus pandemic or ongoing issues with the global supply chain. Last year was the first time Alphabet surpassed $200 billion in revenue, which is almost triple the company’s revenue from 2016, just five years earlier.

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Computer Weekly

JANUARY 27, 2017

Cloud computing is making significant contributions to driving the revenues for companies in the technology sector, according to quarterly results posted by Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Verily Life Sciences, the Alphabet-owned healthcare company, is suspending employee spot bonuses, as reported by Business Insider. Because of Alphabet’s strong financial position, diversity and inclusion shouldn’t be hard to invest in. Alphabet, Verily’s parent company, made a profit of $46.07

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

Congress has sent subpoenas demanding information from Meta (formerly Facebook), Twitter, Reddit, and Alphabet concerning the January 6th, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Cyber Threat Intelligence is an overcrowded space that is overdue for contraction. In general, we see it filled with smaller vendors with founders who come from an intel background, got enough funding to land a Fortune 100 client (not exclusively, mind you), and have put their logo into every pitch deck they use when going […].

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Google parent company Alphabet has settled a shareholder lawsuit over its handling of sexual misconduct. This settlement is likely to have lasting, long-term success in bringing about major, transformative changes at Alphabet,” the shareholders’ attorney said in a statement to CNBC. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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CTOvision

JULY 14, 2021

” Mega-Cap Regulations: Although there are a lot of people complaining about mega-cap technology companies like Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc, and Facebook Inc, it doesn’t look like anything will be done to negatively […].

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Computer Weekly

JULY 29, 2016

Alphabet ascribes strong second quarter financial results to long-term investments in mobile and video as demand for advertising through these channels increases

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