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Here is all you need to know about YouTube's new CEO, Neal Mohan

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

Spotify to start handing over pink slips as soon as this week: Report

In October, Spotify laid off 38 people from its Gimlet Media and Parcast podcast studios

Google's research and development division 'Area 120' hit by layoffs

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

Google says India antitrust ruling to drive up costs for app developers

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

Google alleges CCI copied parts of EU order on Android abuse, says report

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

Google India's profits triple in five years, at Rs 1,238 crore in FY22

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 Wing unveils remote operations centre for drone delivery

Alphabet's drone delivery company Wing has unveiled its new remote operations centre where pilots will monitor multiple missions at a time

In layoff season, Google may fire 10,000 'low performing' employees

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's parent company Alphabet prepares to lay off 10,000 employees

Google new ranking and performance improvement plan will help managers push out underperforming employees

Pandemic boom to season of layoffs: How big tech and startups got it wrong

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

The CCI's Google orders: How does it impact innovation for apps

Opinion split on how ecosystem will change after regulator asks tech giant to stop misusing its 'dominant position'

Apple saw double-digit revenue growth in India in Sept quarter: Tim Cook

iPad, MacBook, and services were the main drivers of Apple's growth in India, indicating that the company is expanding in the country

Big tech's dirty supply chains undercut climate promises from headquarters

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

Gloomy results by Alphabet, Microsoft stoke fears of a global downturn

Alphabet leads Big Tech sell-off after reporting slowdown in ad growth, Microsoft's cloud revenue softer than expected

Google, Microsoft, TI announce disappointing results; tech stocks tumble

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

'There will be blood on streets,' Google execs warn employees about layoffs

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"

Google Search witnesses massive outage, affects tens of thousands of users

The most common causes of such failures are back-end web infrastructure, such as those experienced by Fastly and Amazon Web Services last year

Google to slow hiring for the rest of the year as recession looms

Sundar Pichai said the company will focus on hiring "engineering, technical and other critical roles," in 2022 and 2023

Google offers to split ad-tech biz to avoid antitrust lawsuit: Report

New entity could be valued at tens of billions of dollars, depending on what assets it holds

Google hit with UK probe into suspected competition breaches: Report

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