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Chase for talent pushes Apple, Google and Amazon far beyond west coast
Many of the companies are trying to cozy up to top engineering schools in cities like Pittsburgh
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Google readies plan to take on rivals Amazon, Flipkart in Indian market
This experience is available across several Google products: The Shopping Homepage, the Shopping tab on Google Search and Google Lens
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Google's Sundar Pichai faces privacy and bias questions in Congress
While Google had been under scrutiny before, particularly in Europe, where regulators have fined it, it had not had to address such an array of issues in one go and in such an open forum
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From World Cup to Kate Spade: What we searched the most on Google in 2018
The list of top trending searches on Google globally included US actress Meghan Markle, who married British Prince Harry, and a "Black Panther" film that debuted this year
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Sundar Pichai faces US House grilling on Google Plus breach, China
Sundar Pichai's appearance before the Judiciary Committee comes after he angered members of a Senate panel in September by declining their invitation to testify about foreign governments
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Google acquires Sigmoid Labs, maker of popular 'Where is my train' app
This is the second acquisition Google is making to boost its NBU initiative, having acquired four-month-old Halli Labs
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Google employees write to Pichai demanding equal treatment for contractors
Last month, Alphabet Inc. overhauled the way it handles allegations of sexual harassment and assault, but the updated policies largely left out temporary, vendor and contract workers
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Google is considering shut down of messaging app Hangouts in 2020: Report
The company also shut down Google+ because of lackluster performance
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Google to scrutinise political ads before EU elections in May 2019
In May 2019, up to 350 million voters across the EU will take to the Parliamentary polls to elect 705 Members of European Parliament (MEPs)
Food searches in Google vary from state to state in India, shows data
In terms of categories of what consumers are looking for, Google gets over 2.3 billion searches per annum on food in which the top three include desserts, fruits and vegetables
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Data protection advocates cry foul as Google takes over health records
While Google says it will continue to ring-fence the patient data, critics say the potential for abuse is significant
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A/B test: How offline businesses are learning from Google to boost profits
An A/B test is when a company gives a user access to one of two versions of a website or app: the current version and the prototype
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Google begins rolling out 'Neighbourly' Q&A app across Indian cities
Part of the company's Next Billion Users (NBU) initiative, Neighbourly will be launched across India an a phased manner over the next two weeks
Google to allow users to comment on search results, like and dislike them
It could also allow users to add comments to sports games while they are live
Google announces new sexual harassment policies after mass protest by staff
Some 150 Google employees participated in the walkout in India. The employees were from Hyderabad, Gurgaon and Mumbai offices
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Walkout prompts Google to reform policies on dealing with sexual harassment
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says in note company is ""sincerely sorry" for past policies a week after 20,000 workers around the world walked off their jobs to protest company's response to sexual harass
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Google plans war on privacy, to choke revenue of sites with stolen content
Google boasted that it has been generating more money for those who create or own digital content
Why Google workers rejected Silicon Valley individualism in walkout
For decades, Silicon Valley has been ground zero for a vaguely utopian form of individualism - the idea that a single engineer with a laptop and an internet connection could change the world
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Google walkout: Pichai says he's still the boss, protests won't sway him
On Thursday, thousands of Google employees walked out of their offices worldwide to protest the company's handling of alleged misconduct by some executives
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Google workers stage global walkout on its handling of sexual harassment
The report said Rubin received a $90 million severance package in 2014 even though Google concluded the sexual misconduct allegations against him were credible
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