An AI 'genius' founded a startup that imitates celebrity voices. Google just paid him $2.7 billion
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Google Cloud salaries revealed: How much it pay engineers, managers, and more in its race to catch up to Amazon and Microsoft (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google tells employees they won't be disciplined if they discuss wages and working conditions (GOOGL)
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Capitol Hill violence the 'antithesis of democracy' in memo to employees (GOOGL)
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More than 1,000 Google employees have signed a petition demanding answers from leadership after the ousting of a prominent AI ethicist (GOOGL)
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Google will start giving employees up to $2,500 a year to help pay off their student loan debt (GOOGL)
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Google cut more than a dozen jobs in 'people operations' as the company slows hiring, but Google says it's due to 'organizational changes' (GOOGL)
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CEO Sundar Pichai tells Google employees in leaked email: 'In times such as these, we may feel like we're moving backwards' (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google once considered acquiring Zoom because 'several thousand' employees preferred it to Google's own product (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google can claim rights over code that its employees write for outside projects, and former Googlers say this policy 'could potentially put' other projects at risk (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google is going through a slow-motion employee revolt and its cofounders are missing in action (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google employees are being encouraged by colleagues to keep silent on President's Trump provocative tweets because they think it will get 'spun' by the far-right press (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google fired 80 employees for abusing user data and spying on people, with some even sharing personal information outside the company, a new report says (GOOGL)
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Google workers are pushing the company to use preferred names on ID badges and drop deadnames (GOOGL)
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Google insiders reveal why the company's ambitious plan to create major video games fell apart (GOOGL)
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Google employees sent a letter demanding leadership changes and a stronger commitment to 'academic integrity,' as tensions over AI ethicist's exit continue to rise (GOOGL)
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Two former Google employees say the US labor board will charge the company with unlawfully spying on, then firing, workers involved in protests (GOOGL)
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Sundar Pichai says Google plans to be 'more flexible' with future office requirements, and will consider hybrid models to create better balance for employees (GOOGL)
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Take a look at 'Gorm the Zop,' the confusing video game that Google uses to teach employees how hard smartphones and the internet can be for first-time users in the developing world (GOOGL)
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Google employees say the company culture that made it famous has almost entirely vanished, as it continues to be less transparent and more 'corporate' (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google reportedly sent its Bangalore office employees home to work remotely after a worker there tested positive for COVID-19 and was put in quarantine (GOOG, GOOGL)
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4 ex-Google employees who were fired over Thanksgiving are asking the US government to investigate (GOOGL)
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Google Cloud has a new program to assign its best salespeople to go after the biggest customers — but Google employees say it makes it harder for current salespeople to advance (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Almost 100 Google employees are petitioning San Francisco Pride to ban Google from sponsoring and participating in the parade — read the full letter here (GOOG, GOOGL)
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DeepMind's cofounder was placed on leave after employees complained about bullying and humiliation for years. Then Google made him a VP. (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Over 250 Google employees are calling on the company to terminate contracts with the Israeli government (GOOGL)
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Google employees consider jumping ship for Facebook and Microsoft after firings, reorgs and mounting tension in its AI division (GOOGL)
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized to employees for how the company handled the exit of AI ethicist Timnit Gebru: 'I accept the responsibility of working to restore your trust' (GOOGL)
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Google emails from 2009 cited in the House antitrust report show some employees were concerned about promoting Chrome on the company's homepage (GOOGL)
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Google salaries revealed: How much the tech giant pays software engineers, UX designers, legal hires, and more (GOOGL)
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Google reportedly trains employees to avoid words like 'dominant,' 'unique,' and 'leader' to protect the company against antitrust backlash (GOOGL, GOOG)
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Google reportedly cut back its diversity programs, and employees said the move was meant to avoid backlash from conservatives (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google sets up fund to offer paid sick leave to contractors and temp workers who can't work due to COVID-19 symptoms or quarantines (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google fires four employees for 'clear and repeated violations' of its data security policies, apparently including one whose suspension inspired a protest at a Google office (GOOG, GOOGL)
@businessinsider.com6 years ago
Google pushed an exception through to allow US Customs and Border Protection to try a key cloud product for free, even as 1,300 Google employees protest any work with the agency (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google is warning employees who want to march with the company at San Francisco's Pride parade that they're not allowed to protest YouTube’s LGBTQ+ policies (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google will reopen its famous cafeterias and relaunch its shuttle bus service next month as employees begin returning to the office (GOOGL)
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What Google Cloud looks for in data center workers as it aggressively hires and builds new locations (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google once stood for 'Don't be evil.' Insiders describe how it spiraled into a culture of mistrust that helped build a union aiming to keep management in check. (GOOGL)
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Google held a meeting to calm rising employee tensions over the ousting of AI ethicist Timnit Gebru. Insiders say it only raised more concerns. (GOOGL)
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Google is looking at a 'hybrid' future for employees, but as remote work becomes ingrained it may need to find new perks to attract and keep talent (GOOGL)
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Google has resumed performance reviews, but some employees are anxious that the new, longer 12-month cycle will hurt their chances to get promotions (GOOGL)
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Google to reportedly extend employee work-from-home until summer 2021 (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google continues to tighten its belt as it enters a 'difficult' few months, and that includes telling employees they can't expense perks like food (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google halts international travel for all employees worldwide due to coronavirus concerns (GOOG, GOOGL)
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Google employees are raising alarms about a new tool that keeps tabs on their internal meetings, but the company says it's nothing to worry about (GOOGL)
@businessinsider.de6 years ago
Google employees are circulating a memo written by a former Googler who says they encountered racism and 'never stopped feeling the burden of being black' while working there (GOOG, GOOGL)
@businessinsider.de6 years ago
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to LGBTQ employees saying YouTube was taking a 'hard look' at its harassment policies (GOOG, GOOGL)
