Meta and Google are cutting staff. Just don’t mention layoffs.
Meta and Google are quietly laying off employees by reorganizing departments and giving employees a limited window to apply for other roles within the company.
Google erroneously sent a nearly $250,000 payment to engineer
Google accidentally sent a security engineer named Sam Curry a payment of nearly $250,000 a few weeks ago, the engineer said in a Sept. 13 tweet.
Google Android antitrust fine largely upheld by EU court
The European Court of Justice’s General Court largely upheld a decision to fine Google more than 4 billion euros for restricting competition through Android.
DuckDuckGo, Mozilla and others support bill to reign in Big Tech's power
Giant tech companies like Alphabet's Google and Meta's Facebook may be facing further regulation if a bill brought forward by Sen. Amy Klobuchar is passed.
Google to face $25.4 billion in damages by UK and Dutch courts over adtech practices
Google will be facing lawsuits with damages of more than $25.4 billion brought on by British and Dutch courts for its alleged unfair advertising practices.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai looking to improve tech giant's efficiency
Pichai warned that Google has been "slower" to make decisions as its headcount has swelled. The search engine technology, online advertising, and cloud computing and consumer electronics company has slowed hiring for the remainder of 2022.
Google to roll out smartwatch, Pixel 7 phones during Oct. 6 event
Google announced Tuesday its launch event for the latest edition of its Pixel smartphone and the first-ever Pixel Watch will take place Oct. 6 in New York.
ADT draws more than $1.5B of new investments from State Farm, Google
State Farm looks for a strategic partnership with ADT. They plan with ADT to transition State Farms' customers from being reactive to being proactive.
Google keeping Truth Social off app store, preventing Android users from getting it: report
Truth Social, the social media platform put out by Trump Media & Technology Group, remain unavailable on the Google Play app store, with each side blaming the other.
Google to crack down on search results for crisis pregnancy centers after Dem pressure
Google is refining its search results for pro-life pregnancy clinics amid pressure from Democrats who have accused the clinics of spreading misinformation about abortion.
Bipartisan group of lawmakers release bill to make it easier for news outlets to negotiate with tech giants
A group of lawmakers, including Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar and Republican Senator John Kennedy, introduced a revised version of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.
Hundreds of Google workers petition for company to expand abortion benefits
Over 650 workers at Google owner Alphabet Inc are demanding it offer abortion benefits to contractors, suspend donations to anti-abortion politicians and expand travel benefits.
WSJ stands by report of Elon Musk affair with Google co-founder's wife: 'confident in our sourcing'
A spokesperson for The Wall Street Journal said they are confident in their sourcing and stand by their reporting of Elon Musk's alleged affair with Nicole Shanahan.
Lawyer for wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin rips ‘defamatory’ report of Elon Musk affair: ‘Outright lie’
A lawyer for Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, denied that she had an affair with Elon Musk and ripped the report as "an outright lie but also defamatory."
Nancy Pelosi's husband has stirred scrutiny for years over his stock purchases
Nancy Pelosi has received backlash following her husband's most recent stock purchase, but Paul Pelosi has garnered media attention in the past for his timely stock purchases.
Google fires employee, a Christian mystic, after he claimed company’s AI system is sentient
A Google engineer, who was also a Christian mystic, was fired by the company last week for saying publicly that its AI chatbot system was sentient.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin could bank $100M in Tesla stock sales amid reports wife had affair with Elon Musk
Google cofounder Sergey Brin is reportedly looking to sell all of his shares of companies owned by Elon Musk, following an alleged affair between Musk and Brin's wife.
These companies have paused hiring or laid off employees
Here is a FOX Business roundup of the companies that have either laid employees off or halted or slowed hiring.
Google will slow hiring for remainder of 2022: memo
Google will slow hiring for the rest of the year as it deals with economic setbacks, parent company Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an email.
Google offers concessions to fend off U.S. antitrust lawsuit
Google has offered concessions as a means of fending off a possible US antitrust lawsuit, offering to split parts of its business that auctions and places ads on websites.


















