Google invests $350 million in Flipkart as part of nearly $1 billion funding roundFlipkart secures $1 billion funding with investments from Google and Walmart. Walmart, which holds an 85% stake, invested $600 million in t...
25 May, 2024, 08.14 AM IST
'Things are changing': Google search's chief highlights challenging times ahead for employeesAt a recent Google all-hands meeting, search leader Prabhakar Raghavan addressed the tech giant's evolving landscape. Donning a hoodie with...
24 Apr, 2024, 02.35 PM IST
TikTok lays off employees to reduce costs: reportChinese short-video app TikTok has announced layoffs, asking a certain number of employees to go to reduce costs. The job cuts mostly affec...
23 Jan, 2024, 10.59 AM IST
YouTuber sues Google Spain for wrongful dismissalThe lawsuit seeks to demonstrate an employment relationship between Jota, a creator of political satire content whose real name has not bee...
23 Nov, 2023, 09.36 PM IST
Dunzo lays off 300 employees amounting to 30% of its workforceBesides layoffs, Dunzo is also likely to cut about 50% of its dark stores and run only those that can be profitable or are nearing that thr...
06 Apr, 2023, 02.55 PM IST
Exclusive: Dunzo secures funding via convertible notes, lays off 30% of staffAbout $50 million of the funding is coming from Google and Reliance Retail while other existing investors are putting in the rest.
06 Apr, 2023, 12.40 PM IST
Google CEO Sundar Pichai likely to take huge pay cut after laying off 12,000 employeesGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that he will take a significant pay cut following the company's decision to lay off 12,000 employees...
29 Jan, 2023, 01.19 PM IST
Google AI scientist Samy Bengio resigns after colleagues' firingsSamy Bengio spent about 14 years at Google and was among its first employees involved in a decade-old project known as Google Brain that ad...
07 Apr, 2021, 10.52 AM IST
Google celebrates Dr. James Naismith, inventor of basketball, with doodleThe sport was invented as a way to help students occupy their time during the unforgiving winter months.
15 Jan, 2021, 12.15 PM IST
How will Sundar Pichai run Alphabet? The clues lie hidden in plain sightPichai joined Google in 2004 and started amassing responsibility for some of the most popular products of the company, including Gmail, the...
05 Dec, 2019, 11.04 AM IST
Google pays tribute to singer-songwriter BB King on 94th anniversary with animated doodleIn 1925, King was born in a Mississippi town.
16 Sep, 2019, 11.54 AM IST
Google is not just for techiesGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai busted one critical myth about Google — that it's not just for technical professionals.
08 Jan, 2016, 02.41 PM IST
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella keeps India tour a low-key affair, to visit T-Hub tomorrowNadella, who is understood to be here for a personal trip, is expected to meet Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
28 Dec, 2015, 10.17 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi extols power of social media, says 'Make in India' would be successfulFacebook townhall with CEO Mark Zuckerberg will long be remembered for Modi breaking down as he spoke about his parents and especially his ...
28 Sep, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi leaves for Silicon Valley on US visitModi left New York immediately after he hosted the leaders of Brazil, Japan and Germany for the G-4 summit on the long pending UNSC reform ...
26 Sep, 2015, 09.52 PM IST
Street View programme: PMO asks ministries for update on Google's applicationPM Narendra Modi’s itinerary in the US may include a stop at the Googleplex and this could be one of the queries that comes up.
16 Sep, 2015, 01.47 AM IST
Employees at Infosys give thumbs up to CEO Vishal SikkaInfosys regularly conducts an annual employee satisfaction and feedback survey called “litmus”, in association with a third party vendor.
13 Oct, 2014, 04.00 PM IST