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That sounds pretty bad! But it could be much worse for Alphabet and its investors.
Its self-driving car unit, Waymo, poached a government affairs guru from eBay.
Google received necessary approvals from the Mountain View City Council earlier this week.
Tom Moore will stay on in an advisory role.
Google’s latest “fake news” oversight sounds even worse when spoken aloud.
Handle can move with confidence — and carry 100 pounds.
GV’s biggest investments in 2016 were Oscar, Stripe and Grail.
And that’s why Uber might beat Google and Apple.
The Loon project says these advancements shorten their timeline for deployment.
The subsidiary, called Access, also has a new CEO.
GV, or Google Ventures, has added a button to its website for donations to the civil liberties defense nonprofit.
Eric Grosse confirmed today that he is leaving Google after a decade with the company.
Waymo’s move to bring its hardware manufacturing in-house shows the company’s attempt to edge out suppliers like Delphi and Mobileye.
Google’s CEO says voice search is just part of the bigger search puzzle — and that Google has some real advantages.
Alphabet’s sales beat expectations, but profits fell short.
The investment should take some weight off Alphabet to fund R&D for the medical business.
That’s one thing we’ll look for in Google’s fourth-quarter results, set for Thursday after the bell.
The company routinely weeds out “bad ads.” Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.
Matsuoka recently left Apple, where she was working on health tech.
The Wall Street Journal has data to demonstrate a long-suspected conflict of interest.
Exclusive movies and TV shows might entice Amazon or Apple or Facebook or Alphabet.
The key? Building it in-house.
And if they don’t? “That is bullshit” and they should be shamed, the New York Times columnist adds on Recode Decode.
Not pretty.
Project Wing won’t be profitable in the U.S. for years, if it even takes off.
Maris left earlier this year.
CEO Craig Barratt departs as the company halts rollouts to new cities with layoffs coming.
Dave Vos is leaving Project Wing.
We see you, Loon balloon.
Why?
Another bump in the road for Alphabet.
Tom Moore, an SVP from ViaSat, is taking the reins.
For Uber, autonomous tech is “basically existential.”
The company swapped the dreamer for the networker.
The investor talks about his decision to leave.
Managing partner David Krane is said to be taking his place.
Beam it down, Larry.
The highlights and lowlights from a year of the weirdest corporate structure ever invented.
Among the departures: The project’s tech lead.
