The House Judiciary Committee spent more time on partisan squabbles than urgent questions around Google’s data and privacy practices. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c0fddd5bbcfae2d7b3dea25/master/pass/Business-Pichai_hearing-1071792818-w.jpg
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5 Questions Congress Should Ask Google’s Sundar Pichai
Google’s CEO will testify before the House Judiciary Committee in a hearing focused on transparency and search practices. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c0eb2350dc19b43aab5f1d6/master/pass/Sundar-1056109484.jpg
A tense internal meeting between Google CEO Sundar Pichai and employees went sideways as execs addressed rumors about the company’s China plans (GOOG, GOOGL)
Kimberly White/Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai and cofounder Sergey Brin met with employees during an all-hands meeting on Thursday and discussed reports that Google planned to launch a censored search engine in China. Pichai told staff that the company is not close to launching a search product in China. The meeting grew tense as Pichai […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a jaw-dropping fact about its translation app that shows how much money is still sitting on the table (GOOGL, GOOG)
Stephen Lam/Reuters Google Translate could end up being the search giant’s next hit product. The service now translates 143 billion words a day and saw a boost in use during the World Cup. Google doesn’t sell ads on the service, but its potential appeal for advertisers is obvious. Google has a long list of hit […]
The Google employee who wrote the anti-diversity manifesto was fired after CEO Sundar Pichai called it ‘Not OK’ (GOOG, GOOGL)
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A Google engineer has been fired following the release of a now-infamous manifesto against diversity. The engineer confirmed to Bloomberg he was fired Monday. His manifesto caused tremendous shockwaves across Google and the larger tech industry. A source confirmed the firing, but a Google spokesperson declined to comment on personnel matters. The news […]
