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Working closely with Jio to build affordable smartphone: Google CEO Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday said the company continues to engage closely with partner Jio on the initiative of building an affordable smartphone and that work is underway on the project

Google committed to comply with local laws, work with govts: Sundar Pichai

Google is committed to complying with local laws and engages constructively with governments as they scrutinise and adopt regulatory frameworks, its CEO Sundar Pichai said

Driverless taxis to cancer drugs: Google's moonshots are serious business

Alphabet could be underinvesting in the sustainability of its prosperous main business while overinvesting in adventurous sidelines.

Google, Microsoft's CEOs pledge support in India's fight against Covid-19

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella have assured help to India as the country grapples with a ravaging coronavirus crisis that has put enormous pressure on its hospitals due to a shortage of beds, oxygen and medical supplies. India logged a record of 3,52,991 new coronavirus infections in a day on Monday, taking its total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,73,13,163. The death toll increased to 1,95,123 with a record 2,812 daily new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data. "Devastated to see the worsening Covid crisis in India. Google & Googlers are providing Rs 135 crore in funding to @GiveIndia, @UNICEF for medical supplies, orgs supporting high-risk communities, and grants to help spread critical information," Indian-origin Google CEO Pichai said in a tweet. In another tweet, Microsoft's Indian-origin CEO Nadella said that his company will continue to use its resources and technology for relief efforts and support for buying oxygen ...

Google Earth's Timelapse feature unfolds decades of planetary change in min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that a 'Timelapse' feature has been introduced in Google Earth, the biggest update since 2017

500 workers ask Sundar Pichai to stop protecting harassers at Google

Over 500 employees have sent an open letter to Alphabet, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding that the company stop protecting the harassers and provide workers an environment free from their abusers

Head of Google's Next Billion Users Caesar Sengupta quits after 15 years

Sengupta is currently the vice president and general manager, payments and NBU initiative at Google

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.