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One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google’s earliest employees — is leaving the company.
“None of us were talking about TikTok three years ago.”
Alphabet’s board recently concluded an investigation into misconduct at the company but says Drummond’s departure is not connected.
Workers joined community activists in demanding change from Google on sexual harassment in the workplace and plans for a censored search engine for China.
Wojcicki spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the Lesbians Who Tech summit in San Francisco.
The lawsuit against Alphabet’s board alleges that Google leadership’s misconduct has caused “severe financial and reputational damage” to the company.
The planned changes come a week after thousands of employees walked out over the company’s handling of sexual misconduct cases.
The company’s $120 billion market value loss reverberated throughout the industry.
The security company is on the upswing of late.
Tech CEOs, on the other hand, don’t make as much in salary as other industries, but they make plenty in stock.
Google’s smart-home gadget brand generated $726 million in revenue last year.
Software helped YouTube flag 4.5 million videos before anyone ever saw them. But another 1.5 million got through, at least briefly.
Google’s $1.1 billion HTC “acqhire” added 2,000 alone.
“Silicon Valley as a whole has lost its purpose,” Stoppelman says on the latest Recode Decode.
The San Bruno facility is separate from the Google campus further south.
This will be the first part of a long-term partnership between the two companies.
Waymo is shipping cargo for Google.
Every time a woman becomes a partner at a VC firm, an angel investor gets her wings.
The company put out a new video that shows consumers what its self-driving cars see.
Putting this messy legal battle to rest was in the best interest of the company as it tries to go public.
Uber agreed to pay Alphabet 0.34 percent of a late stock offering that values Uber at a new high: $72 billion.
The former Uber board member was called as a witness in the trial for Alphabet’s trade secret complaint against Uber.
Otto co-founder Lior Ron said selling to Uber was not guaranteed.
Kalanick and Page: It’s complicated.
Kalanick took the witness stand in Alphabet’s lawsuit against Uber.
The hiring of Faisal Masud, most recently Staples’ CTO, could signal that Project Wing is close to graduating out of the company’s ‘moonshot factory.’
When you’re competing against every funny video ever made, JibJab CEO Gregg Spiridellis asks, “where’s the money that can afford the investment?”
It wants to create a new, super-safe tier for advertisers that would keep out the Logan Pauls of the world.
Schmidt will stay on the board as an adviser.
The letter has been submitted as evidence in Alphabet’s lawsuit against Uber.
Westgarth is No. 97 on the Recode 100.
Drummond is No. 90 on the Recode 100.
Krafcik is No. 46 on the Recode 100.
Here’s the memo.
A former Uber employee claims some of the company’s security officers worked to actively avoid creating a “paper trail.”
Alphabet’s self-driving arm requested the delay after it received new, late-in-the-game evidence from Uber.
It’s limited to an experiment in Phoenix, but this move marks the beginnings of Waymo’s driverless future.
This probably wasn’t part of Waymo’s plan when it delayed the trial until December.
It takes a long time and a lot of staged incidents for a car to learn how to drive itself.