Indian-American Neal Mohan will be the new YouTube CEO, as current head Susan Wojcicki has announced to step down after 25 years at the Google-owned company, according to IANS report. Currently chief product officer, Mohan became part of Google, the parent company of YouTube, in 2008. He is a Stanford graduate and earlier worked with…
Bharti Airtel (Airtel), one of India’s premier communications solutions providers, and Google announced that they will partner on a long-term, multi-year agreement to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem. Together, they will work to bring best-in-class end-to-end products to serve customer needs, provide quality customer experience, and bring their expertise to solve problems of…
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (Jio), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited, and Google Cloud are embarking on a comprehensive, long-term strategic relationship with a goal of powering 5G in enterprise and consumer segments nationwide. In addition, Reliance will also take advantage of Google Cloud’s scalable infrastructure thereby enabling its retail business to achieve better operational…
Google plans to extend work from home for employees till September, 2021, according to a report by Reuters quoting New York Times. The company is testing the idea of a ‘flexible workweek’ once it is safe for staff to return to offices physically. An email was sent by Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to the…
Reliance Industries Limited, Jio Platforms Limited and Google LLC announced the signing of binding agreements for an investment of ₹ 33,737 crore by Google into Jio Platforms. This investment by Google values Jio Platforms at an equity value of ₹ 4.36 lakh crore. Google’s investment will translate into a 7.73% equity stake in Jio Platforms…
Google announced that it will invest $10 billion in India over the next five to seven years, the search giant’s CEO Sundar Pichai said, according to media reports. Google said that it will use this investment to buy stakes in large Indian companies as well as niche digital service providers. According to Google’s blog post,…
Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud have agreed to join forces and form a strategic partnership that aims to redefine how the bank develops and offers its financial services. According to the Google Cloud’s press statement, “The partnership is unique in that it will not only deliver cutting edge cloud services to Deutsche Bank, but also…
The death of an unarmed man of colour in police custody in Minneapolis, U.S last week have sparked a row of protests across the country. The alleged killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers have once again highlighted the racial inequality in the United States and people have now taken to the streets…
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has donated ₹5Cr to non-profit Give India, thus matching Google’s earlier donation of ₹5Cr to the online NGO donation platform. Thanking Pichai, Give India in a tweet said, “Thank you @sundarpichai for matching @Googleorg’s Rs 5 crore grant to provide desperately needed cash assistance for vulnerable daily wage worker…
Tech giant Google on Monday confirmed that its Head of People Operations or Head of HR Eileen Naughton is stepping down from her position. This comes after Eileen spent years mediating issues between the management and the employees due to the rise in employee activism. She will be stepping down from her position as the…
Alphabet, the parent company of Google on Friday crossed the $1bn valuation mark. With this Alphabet became the fourth tech company to cross $1trillion milestone. Alphabet joins Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon in the exclusive club. Amazon passed the $1trillion mark in September 2018 but its current value is estimated at $931bn. Apple was the first…
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Advertising Chief of Google has ended his 15 years relationship with the company to join Greylock Partners as a venture partner. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Google’s business-applications unit, will step into his role. In 2003, Sridhar joined the ads team, at that time the revenue of ads group was $1.5 billion. He was…
Andy Rubin, the guy leading the Android division at Google will be moving to a new role, while Sundar Pichai will be taking his place as head of Android division. Pichai is presently heading Chrome and Apps division. The announcement was posted on the official Google Blog as an update from Larry Page: “Having exceeded…