Google's Alphabet to use balloons to restore cell service in Puerto Rico after hurricane
Alphabet is searching for a wireless carrier to serve as its partner in Project Loon, which aims provide emergency cell services to Puerto Rico
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Google sued by former female employees over gender pay discrimination
Google has been dealt another blow as the Labor Department investigates claims of unfair pay practices at the company
Google appeals against record €2.4bn EU antitrust fine
The EU fined Google for favouring its own shopping comparison service in search results over rivals
Google to outline plan to meet EU order to stop favouring own shopping service in search results
Google was fined a record €2.42bn fine by the EU for abusing its dominance in Europe by giving rival shopping sites an unfair advantage in search results
Google parent Alphabet posts quarterly profit decline after record EU antitrust fine
Alphabet's second quarter revenue was boosted by Google advertising revenues
Google to lose out on billions in shopping revenues every year following EU ruling
Analysts at Raymond James estimate that Google generates around US$4bn in revenues every year from its Google Shopping service in Europe, revenues which could soon come under threat
Google to launch new AI to ‘seek and destroy’ extremist YouTube content
Google says it will commit more engineering resources to develop artificial intelligence software that can be trained to identify and remove extremist content from YouTube.
Snap Inc: Do Facebook and Google provide a market road map for the beleaguered messaging giant?
The message app company's shares fell back to US$17 - the IPO price - but will things improve?
Google owner Alphabet agrees deal to sell off its robotic dog business to SoftBank
The deal, which also includes Alphabet’s Schaft robotics business, marks a swift exit from the robot space for the tech giant
Airbnb raises US$1bn as it looks to expand
The new cash means it’s unlikely the company will follow Snap onto the public market any time soon
Google apologises for unintentionally spreading fake news through search engine
Alphabet's search engine Google has responded to criticism that it is fails to weed out fake news through its featured snippets functionality
Uber boss apologises after video of heated exchange with a driver for the ride-hailing firm goes viral
Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, has apologised after a video showing him in a verbal altercation with a driver for the ride-hailing company became public.
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Trending: Will you snap up Snapchat?
For all the hype of a relatively new social media platform coming to market, never have views been more divided than over the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t Snapchat. And that doesn’t bode too well for a company whose IPO is this week
Aspiring to AAA seems as simple as ABC for Google owner Alphabet
Alphabet the owner of Google, now has a Standard & Poor’s credit rating on a par with the United States of America
US Dow Jones has longest record run since 1987 as chemicals gain
US stocks closed mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average the only major ticker able to muster gains – and its longest record-setting period in 30 years
UK spread betting firm IG Group launches ‘grey market’ pricing for Snapchat owner's IPO
IG said the current price in the market estimates the value of Snap Inc. to be US$27.4bn, which would make it the biggest US tech float since Facebook Inc.
Snapchat owner confirms IPO plans, but is offering investors no voting rights
Snap Inc outlined aggressive expansion plans but is offering new investors no say on how the company is run and no promise of profits.
Trumping him: Starbucks plans to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in 75 countries
Starbuck’s chief executive officer Howard Schultz told employees in a letter on Sunday that it would do everything possible to support workers affected by the Trump ban.
Trending: Tech stocks fight Trump, with an olive branch
After a week of haemorrhaging, the tech sector looks like it might be turning a corner – but only as it offers an olive branch to the US President-elect Donald Trump
Trending: What will it take for Apple shares to rise?
Apple shares closed up 0.9% at $107.73 on Friday, but the share price has, all told, been jobbing a range of $110 to $90 since December 2015. That has had some pundits thinking