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Mohan will join an expanding club of prominent Indian-American executives who are running the show for some of the biggest tech giants in the world
In October, Spotify laid off 38 people from its Gimlet Media and Parcast podcast studios
As Google's parent company Alphabet laid off 12,000 employees, its in-house research and development (R&D) division called Area 120 has also been significantly hit
Alphabet Inc's Google said that India's new antitrust order to change how the company markets its Android platform will drive up costs for app developers, equipment makers, and consequently, consumers
CCI in October fined Alphabet Inc's Google $161 million for exploiting its dominant position in markets such as online search and the Android app store
More than half of Alphabet's revenue (Google's parent company) came from Google Search in 2021, even though its share from advertising subsidiaries and YouTube advertisements is increasing
Alphabet's drone delivery company Wing has unveiled its new remote operations centre where pilots will monitor multiple missions at a time
The news on layoff at Google has come within days of a letter that hedge fund TCI, an investor in the company, wrote to Alphabet. TCI has shares worth $6 billion in Alphabet
Google new ranking and performance improvement plan will help managers push out underperforming employees
It is not just Meta which is looking at becoming capital efficient. Alphabet, the parent company of Google and Microsoft have already sent messages that focus will be on increasing productivity
Opinion split on how ecosystem will change after regulator asks tech giant to stop misusing its 'dominant position'
iPad, MacBook, and services were the main drivers of Apple's growth in India, indicating that the company is expanding in the country
Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp, and Alphabet Inc have pledged to run their own operations on 100 per cent clean power. But their suppliers remain deeply reliant on fossil fuels
Alphabet leads Big Tech sell-off after reporting slowdown in ad growth, Microsoft's cloud revenue softer than expected
Google parent Alphabet Inc. fell as much as 7.4% after third-quarter revenue came in below expectations, while software giant Microsoft Corp. lost 8.1% following a disappointing revenue forecast
As Big Tech companies begin to lay off employees, Google executives have reportedly warned workers to either boost performance or prepare to leave as "there will be blood on the streets"
The most common causes of such failures are back-end web infrastructure, such as those experienced by Fastly and Amazon Web Services last year
Sundar Pichai said the company will focus on hiring "engineering, technical and other critical roles," in 2022 and 2023
New entity could be valued at tens of billions of dollars, depending on what assets it holds
The Competition and Markets Authority will probe suspected breaches of competition law in Google's rules over in-app payments in its mobile store in the UK