Information security
Google updates privacy settings to delete user data by default
Google has adjusted its privacy settings so that it retains less user data in an effort to keep personal information safe.
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Investment
Alphabet shares soar on Google Cloud, YouTube expansion
Alphabet shares surged after first-quarter results and upbeat executive comments showed the company’s cloud and YouTube businesses kept growing in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
World
Alphabet CEO received annual compensation worth $281-million
Alphabet said in a regulatory filing that CEO Sundar Pichai was awarded $281-million (R5.4-billion) in compensation last year, making him one of the world’s highest-paid executives.
World
Google to slow hiring for the rest of 2020
Google parent Alphabet is slowing hiring for the remainder of the year, the most drastic action by the Internet search giant since the Covid-19 pandemic began battering its advertising business.
News
AI will be more profound than fire or electricity: Pichai
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity.
News
AI must be regulated, Google CEO says
Artificial intelligence is “too important” not to be regulated because of the damage it could cause if left unchecked, the boss of Google has said.
In-depth
Inside the culture war tearing at Google
Google’s idealistic history increases the burden on its executives to bring along reluctant employees as it adopts more conventional corporate practices. It’s not going to be easy as tensions boil over.
World
Alphabet’s new CEO finally has a title fitting his role
If you want to know how Alphabet’s new CEO, Sundar Pichai, will run the company you don’t need to look very far – he’s essentially been doing it for several years already.
World
End of an era: Page, Brin to step down at Alphabet
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as leaders of parent company Alphabet, ending day-to-day involvement as regulators intensify scrutiny of an Internet industry the two men helped create.
News
Google blocks privacy push at group that sets Web standards
Google blocked a privacy push at the main organisation that decides how the World Wide Web works, according to a recent vote that isolated the Internet giant from others involved in the process.
