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Google's birthday: Google is celebrating 28th birthday with Google Doodle today but why it's not matching it's official incorporation date September 4Google's 28th Birthday: Google is celebrating its 28th birthday today with a special Doodle. The artwork brings back a nostalgic look at th...- In 1998, an investor writes a $100,000 cheque to a startup called Google, which was running out of a garage; founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin set it up as a business the very next day, now the company is worth more than $4 trillionGoogle's birthday: Google marks its 28th birthday on September 27, 2026, with a special Doodle bringing back its early logo. The occasion l...
- Govt’s frontier AI push; Insurance stock rout continuesThe government is weighing an anchor investment for a frontier AI development fund. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
- 'Let's race, not wrestle': 5 key takeaways that defined Trump-Xi meet in WashingtonTrump and Xi Jinping met at the White House for talks focused on trade, AI and the broader US-China strategic rivalry. Xi called for cooper...
- As the coding boom fades, computer science grads focus on AI skills in choppy job marketThe elevated jobless rate in the field - at around 7.1% for recent computer science and computer engineering graduates, according to an Ass...
- Autonomous AI hacks raise thorny questions of legal accountabilityThe prospect of legal accountability is unclear. Lawsuits are a possibility, but some legal experts believe any criminal investigations wou...
- IRDAI's commission reset impact; ETSA winner Progcap’s next betHappy Friday! IRDAI's overhaul plan could significantly impact the new-age insurance distribution industry. This and more in today’s ETtech...
- ET Startup Awards 2026: Pallavi Shrivastava’s Progcap is powering up a million kiranasShrivastava won in the Woman Ahead category of the ET Startup Awards 2026, along with demi-fine jewellery startup Palmonas’ founder, Pallav...
- Amazon's surprising gesture for fired employees after over 30,000 layoffs: Tech giant reaches out to former workers for AI, cloud jobsFollowing significant layoffs in 2026, Amazon is reaching out to its former workforce, offering new job opportunities primarily in AI and c...
- How Satellite Imagery and AI can enable targeted solutions for Indian farmersTerrastack has integrated land records, farm-level satellite data, crop activity, climate signals, market data, and more for over 140 milli...
- Google fined $463 million for breaching EU rule on location dataGoogle received a 403 million euro fine for privacy rule breaches. The European Union's watchdog found Google mishandled user location data...
- Social Security payments worth up to $5,181 are going out this week: Here’s who gets paid September 23 and why most retirees won’t receive that muchSocial Security payments are going out this week, with the next round scheduled for September 23, 2026. Here’s who is eligible for the paym...
- Nokia began in 1865 as a paper mill, expanded into rubber and cables, launched its first handheld in 1987 and led mobile phones by 1998; after 149 years, its handset business was sold to Microsoft in 2014Nokia's move toward telecommunications developed gradually rather than happening overnight. The company entered telecommunications equipmen...
- Billionaires abound in California. Why not tax their wealth?No state may be a more natural fit for a tax on billionaires than California. The state leans left politically, needs funds for healthcare ...
- In 2008, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo De Michele spotted Egypt’s 148-foot Kamil Crater while scanning Google Earth; scientists later recovered 1.7 tons of meteorite fragmentsAn Italian mineralogist discovered a near-perfect circle in Egypt's desert sand. This circle was confirmed as the well-preserved Kamil Crat...
- In 2005, a programmer spotted strange rectangles on Google Earth; ceramic shards proved they marked a buried Roman villa in ItalyA programmer found a Roman villa by examining satellite maps of his hometown. He noticed unusual patterns which led to a significant archae...
- Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google face federal antitrust lawsuit over calls to slowdown AI developmentAccording to a news report by Politico, the complaint filed in the Northern District Court of California, claims that public statements mad...
- UPI's free lunch is over: Why the 0.4% MDR charge is fair, needed and overdueDigital payment charges are necessary for service efficiency and wider reach. Person-to-person and small transactions remain free from new ...
- News Corp bought Myspace for $580 million in 2005. In 2011, Specific Media and Justin Timberlake acquired it for about $35 millionMyspace helped popularize personalized online profiles, artist promotion and social networking at a crucial stage in the development of the...
- Doomers and boosters: who's who in the AI warsThe furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps -- and a cautious middle. Today, most of the doomers warnin...
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