The Latest Breaking News from Alphabet Inc

Russia on Friday demanded that Alphabet Inc's Google stop spreading what it called threats against Russian citizens on its YouTube video-sharing platform, a move that could presage an outright block of the service on Russian territory. Google representatives in Russia did not respond to an emailed request for comment.

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google launched Equiano, its new private subsea cable that would connect Africa with Europe.  Equiano will start in western Europe and run along the West Coast of Africa, between Portugal and South Africa, with branching units to extend connectivity to additional African countries. The new cable will help Togo…

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google detected a group of ransomware hackers trying to breach companies in 2021, exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows. The group sent over 5,000 malicious emails a day to up to 650 global organizations, often leveraging a flaw in MSHTML. Microsoft issued a security fix for the Windows vulnerability…

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) terminated a former Autopilot employee who shared video reviews of the company's Full Self Driving Beta system, CNBC reports. John Bernal had shared candid video reviews on his Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube channel, AI Addict, showing how the company's FSD Beta system worked in different locations around Silicon Valley. Before…

Alphabet Inc - Class C Capital Stock's (NASDAQ:GOOG) short percent of float has risen 19.61% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 1.68 million shares sold short, which is 0.61% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google's internal survey disclosed an unhappy workforce regarding critical issues like pay package and an ability to accomplish career goals, CNBC reports. Contrastingly, Google's mission and values fetched the highest scores. CEO Sundar Pichai won a favorable rating of 86% with less-flattering responses to specific Pichai questions.…

EU and U.K. antitrust regulators launched parallel investigations into Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit Google and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) over a 2018 ad deal, CNBC reports. The European Commission and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority investigated whether the pact between the two tech giants dubbed “Jedi Blue” squeezed competitors out of…

Kyle Forgeard, of the Nelk Boys podcast, announced that Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ:

TikTok is close to forging a deal for Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) to store its U.S. users' information without its Chinese parent ByteDance having access to it, Reuters reports. Oracle will store all of TikTok's U.S. user data on Oracle data servers under the new proposed partnership.  Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Cloud currently stores…

Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ:FB) VP of youth Pavni Diwanji departed as part of a restructuring, the Wall Street Journal reports. Diwanji supervised Instagram's development of a controversial product for children. Diwanji previously served as a VP at Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, where she led YouTube kids and other family-oriented projects. Adam Mosseri, head…

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube and Google Play store halted every payment-based service in Russia, including subscriptions, Reuters reports. Western sanctions have started to pose banking challenges in Russia.  Visa Inc (NYSE:V) and Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) blocked Russian banks from their networks following sanctions. Google and YouTube had recently stopped selling online advertising in Russia following Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)…