Alphabet reports Q4 net income of $10.67B, up from $8.95B YoY, fiscal year 2019 revenues of $162B, up 18% YoY, discloses new Search, YouTube, and Cloud revenues
up 36 percent from 2018 and 86 percent compared to 2017. https://abc.xyz/... https://twitter.com/... Luther Lowe / @lutherlowe : Now we know why Google was making even more of its ads look like organi...
Larry Page steps down as Alphabet CEO; Sundar Pichai to lead both Alphabet and Google
Silicon Valley is still politely shrugging … Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg : Alphabet's New Boss Leaves Silicon Valley Giants Low on Founders PYMNTS.com : Top News In Payments: CFPB Seeks Remittance Exempti...
Google's limits on microtargeting of political ads for state and federal candidates shakes up ad plans and frustrates both Democrats and Republicans
but it's a secret April Glaser / Slate : Will Google's Changes to Political Ads Hurt Democrats or Republicans More? Washington Post : Google's new political ad rules unite Democratic and Republican ca...
Data analytics startup Sisu emerges from stealth with $52.5M Series B led by NEA, with a16z and Green Bay participating, bringing its total raised to $66.7M
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Google Maps' two-wheeler mode in India, which offers custom routes for motorbikes before riders start a trip, has grown to 5M daily users since its 2017 launch
Jillian D'Onfro / Forbes : Tweets: @laurencza Tweets: Lauren Celenza / @laurencza : My team and I recently spoke with @Forbes & @jillianiles about our process for building two-wheeler mode for @googl...
Moveworks, which runs a platform that automatically handles mundane IT requests, raises $30M Series A from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bain Capital
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Google spent $21.2M on US govt lobbying in 2018, up from $18.04M in 2017; Facebook spent $12.62M, up from $11.51M; and Microsoft spent $9.52M, up from $8.5M
Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg Try To Reinvent Web Video Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : In 2018 Apple Spent $6.6 Million Lobbying the Government Dave Lee / Notes from Silicon Valley : Tech's lobb...
Google spent $21.2M on US govt lobbying in 2018, up from $18.04M in 2017; Facebook spent $12.62M, up from $11.51M; and Microsoft spent $9.52M, up from $8.5M
Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg Try To Reinvent Web Video Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : In 2018 Apple Spent $6.6 Million Lobbying the Government Tweets: Jillian D'Onfro / @jillianiles : Google se...
Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, expand training, and more
Amazon Wants to Get America Scanning for the Holidays James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : After global walkout, Google rewrites policy on sexual misconduct cases Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Google CEO high...
Alphabet reports Q3 Google ad business revenue of $28.95B, “other” revenues, like cloud and hardware, of $4.64B, and traffic acquisition costs of $6.58B
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