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Google is planning to reduce senior executives’ pay as part of a cost-cutting drive that includes laying off 12,000 workers.  Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and its parent Alphabet (ticker: GOOG), said employees at the senior vice president level and above would get lower bonuses, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people who heard the remarks at a companywide meeting on Monday.  Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced mass layoffs on Friday.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A Google engineer said he was shocked to find out he was laid off at 3 a.m. on Friday. Chris McDonald told Insider he was locked out of work accounts 20 minutes after reading the notice. He hoped Google’s layoffs were a “wake-up call” to other tech workers who were still in their jobs. A Google engineer who was recently laid off said he was locked out of the company’s online system 20 minutes after finding out… Source link

Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios Google is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee accusing the tech giant of bias in its handling of email, as it ends a pilot program that allowed senders of campaign emails to bypass users’ spam folders, per a filing seen by Axios. Why it matters: Conservatives remain angry with Google, which they believe has unfairly marked their campaign messages as spam, and they now control one house of Congress. Driving the news: Google’s motion… Source link

Elon Musk said Google had a “standing interest in buying Tesla” in testimony in the securities fraud trial. The Tesla CEO said this helped encourage him to try to secure funds to take the EV maker private. According to a 2015 book, Musk and former Google CEO Larry Page had an $11 billion deal in place for Tesla.   … Source link

Last month, Google added end-to-end encryption support for RCS group chats in the Messages app. Google has focused on improving the default messaging experience for Android users in recent months and Google Messages now may be gearing up to add the ability to support user profiles in the Google Messages app. As per a screenshot posted in a Reddit post by u/seeareeff, Google may begin adding user profiles to Google Messages. The screenshot contains a page in the app’s settings called… Source link

Apparently, Google’s Clock 7.4 update gets rid of the swipe buttons to snooze and silence the alarm and switches them out for buttons. The Google Clock app is getting another update, this time, making it easier to silence your alarm. The new update, which comes as version 7.4, is rolling out now and changes some of the UI elements for the better. Google Clock 7.4 swaps out the slide to snooze or slide to stop the alarm for buttons that need to be pressed…. Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet Lluis Gene | AFP | Getty Images Days after Google announced the largest round of layoffs in the company’s 25-year history, executives defended the job cuts and took questions from a concerned workforce during a town hall meeting on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai led the companywide meeting and told employees that executives will see their bonuses cut. He pleaded with staffers to remain motivated as Google faces heightened competition in areas like artificial… Source link

Th Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc’s Google as soon as Tuesday regarding its dominance over the digital advertising market, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The lawsuit would be the second federal antitrust complaint filed against Google, alleging violations of antitrust law in how the tech giant acquires or maintains its dominance. The Justice Department lawsuit filed against Google in 2020 focuses on… Source link

Jan 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google as soon as Tuesday regarding its dominance over the digital advertising market, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The lawsuit would be the second federal antitrust complaint filed against Google, alleging violations of antitrust law in how the tech giant acquires or maintains its dominance. The Justice Department lawsuit filed against Google in 2020 focuses… Source link

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to sue Alphabet Inc. in the coming days over its dominance in the online ad market, according to a report late Monday. Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reported the antitrust suit is expected to be filed in federal court before the end of this week, and as soon as Tuesday. The pending filing has been rumored for months, after the Justice Department reportedly rejected concessions offered by… Source link