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Back to news homeGoogle tells staff to act ‘more entrepreneurial.’ Translation: Work harder, or else
Sundar Pichai, boss of Google and its parent Alphabet, told employees to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger” in a staff-wide email that warned of consolidation, several news […]
Should Oracle or Alphabet buy VMWare instead of Broadcom?
As expected, the Broadcom-VMware deal is a go. The chip giant intends to snap up the virtualization software company for $61 billion in cash and stock, along with taking on […]
Google tells shareholders that YouTube Shorts is doing great, don’t worry about TikTok!
Alphabet, the parent company to Google, announced its first quarter earnings this evening, and for the creator industry, that means a slew of news and updates about YouTube. YouTube is […]
Alphabet-owned Intrinsic is acquiring fellow robotic software firm Vicarious
Alphabet X-birthed Intrinsic made its big debut last September. The subsidiary looks to buck its parent company’s somewhat spotty robotics record with a software-first approach. Specifically, the company is looking […]
Alphabet just spun out out its quantum tech group, launching it as an independent company
Quantum tech may be having its moment at long last. Consider that earlier this month, one of the few “pure play” quantum tech companies in the world, Rigetti Computing, went […]
Equity Shot: Making sense of the Paypal and Alphabet earnings
Hello and happy weekend from the Equity crew! We had a busy week, including a Twitter Space with Natasha and Alex taking to the mics to dig into some tasty […]
Daily Crunch: Shark Tank India host Ashneer Grover tries to get his BharatPe CEO fired
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With a $22B run rate, does it matter if Google Cloud still loses money?
Google’s public cloud has been chasing competing services from Amazon and Microsoft for so long, you might think it would be getting winded. But the critical Alphabet division keeps on […]
Google’s Privacy Sandbox targeted by fresh EU antitrust complaint
German publishers are the latest to band together to try to derail or at least delay Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” plan to end support for tracking cookies in Chrome via a […]