Tag: Alphabet

Verily's Founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become Executive Chairman and President Stephen Gillett has been promoted to CEO, the company said in a statement.

San Francisco: In a bid to hide sexual harassment allegations against former Google executives, Alphabet’s board of directors has approved hefty severance packages for the accused, according a lawsuit filed by a shareholder of the company. Alphabet Inc is Google’s parent company. The lawsuit filed on Thursday in California state court accuses the board and […]

San Francisco:Google’s parent company Alphabet has put on hold a project to build glucose-sensing contact lens for people living with diabetes due to unsatisfactory results from clinical work. The aim of the project was to turn contact lens into a cutting-edge medical device that could measure blood glucose levels through detection of glucose level in […]

New York: Apple on Thursday became the first publicly traded US corporation to reach a market capitalization of $1 trillion, beating other tech giants, such as Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft, in the race to reach the milestone. After closing up nearly 6 percent in the previous trading session, Apple shares climbed another 2.4 per cent […]

San Francisco: Google parent company Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond has decided to quit following potentially inappropriate workplace relationship with a subordinate. Drummond joined Google way back in 1998 and spent 18 years as the company’s top lawyer, working closely with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin who have also moved on, handing over […]

New York: Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, says that the future success of tech behemoth Google is not guaranteed in a fast-changing world as it faces competition in all areas where it now operates. “Google operates in highly competitive and dynamic global markets, in which prices are free or falling, and products are constantly […]