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President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a new definition to his famous slogan "Make America Great Again." What Happened During a press conference on the signing of a bill to ensure better job opportunities for veterans in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM,...

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary Google's vice president for "people operations" is departing from the role, Fortune reported Monday. What Happened Eileen Naughton, the head of Google's human resources department, who has been with the company since 2006, is...

Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has released YouTube's earnings report for the first time since acquiring it in 2006. What Happened? Alphabet’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results announced on December 31, 2019, indicate that...

If you’re in doubt, just “Google” it. That’s how dominant Alphabet‘s Google (NASSAQ: GOOGL) has become in the digital search space. Just about everyone knows the name Google and it’s become a common-use verb for looking something up online. But...

Cruise, the self-driving car start-up, in which General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) owns a majority state, revealed a prototype of its driverless robo-taxi on Tuesday. What Happened The robo-taxi called Cruise Origin is a “fully engineered vehicle that’s on its way to production,”...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella criticized India's recent Citizenship Amendment Act, saying it is against India's plurality and hurts the country's economic prospects. What Happened "I think it's just bad if anything," Nadella told Buzzfeed...

Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google has updated its travel site to provide more useful content for travelers, CNBCreports. What Happened Google’s travel site, updated on Wednesday, now shows more information on the weather conditions, prices, and crowds in a vacation destination....

Swedish content creator Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, said on Saturday that he would be taking a break from Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) video platform YouTube for some time in 2020. What Happened "I am taking a break from YouTube next year. I...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has hired medical device maker AliveCor Inc's chief medical officer Jacqueline Shreibati to be a part of the Google Health initiative, CNBC reported on Tuesday. Shreibati, a Stanford University School of Medicine graduate, will join the health team led by David...

Technology giants are bringing digital financial services to more people in the world than ever, but the authorities should be watchful for anti-competitive practices and unfair advantage over traditional systems, the Financial Stability Board said in a report on Sunday. The FSB is an...

This weekend's Barron's cover story includes 10 picks for the small-cap rally. Other featured articles discuss a consumer finance stock that looks attractive now and a struggling retailer in need of a miracle. Also, the prospects for a travel company, a technology giant, an athletic shoe...

Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, has raised $3.4 billion for investments in the U.S. and China, according to the information on their Form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. What Happened The California-based company filed the Form D with SEC on Tuesday,...

The office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Monday proposed to impose up to 100% additional duties on certain French imports worth $2.4 billion. What Happened The federal agency said that its investigation found France’s Digital Services Tax to be “burdensome” for the...

For every Trump campaign ad Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) refuses to take down, there is plenty that it has, in fact, removed for violating its policies, CBS’s 60 minutes reported on Sunday. What Happened The company’s two vital subsidiaries Google and YouTube removed more than...

Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary Google LLC fired four employees over “clear and repeated violations” of the company’s “data security policies,” an internal memo accessed by Bloomberg on Monday showed. What Happened Google said that the...