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Do you forget what day it is? Lucky you

The seven-day week is a Roman construct. It has no natural reason for being – especially in the week after Christmas.

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Google’s cricket-loving CEO has just become a billionaire

When Sundar Pichai won a scholarship to Stanford University in 1993, his family spent more than his father’s annual salary to buy a plane ticket to California. It has paid off.

  • Dylan Sloan

The $2.1 trillion welcome party: World’s richest people flock to Donald Trump

A who’s who of the world’s wealthiest people surrounded the president as he took the oath of office.

  • Jamie Tarabay, Amanda Gordon, Steven T. Dennis and Emily Birnbaum
Google Australia posted gross revenue for $5.2 billion last year, which majority of the money from advertisers.

Google’s AI isn’t too woke. It’s too rushed

Google boss Sundar Pichai hasn’t been infected by the woke mind virus. He’s too obsessed with growth and is neglecting the proper checks on his products.

  • Parmy Olson
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai as he arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington on Monday.

Google CEO says his company has improved the internet for everyone

As Sundar Pichai tells it, the tech giant has always been on the side of consumers as it paid billions of dollars to Apple and Samsung to make Google’s internet search engine the default option on their devices.

  • Nico Grant and David McCabe
Google argues that dissatisfied users could switch search engines with “a few easy clicks.”

Google accused of paying $16b a year to stay as the king of search

The case about “the future of the internet” is underway, with Google arguing the US was wrong to say the search and advertising giant broke the law to hold onto its massive market share.

  • Paul Wiseman and Michael Liedtke
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Facebook has said it used a broad approach to taking down news content to comply with a vaguely worded law and insisted non-news pages were removed inadvertently.

Wartime CEO: Mark Zuckerberg’s ruthlessness is what Facebook needs now

As storm clouds gather around the tech giants, Mark Zuckerberg is the right person for the job as he looks to protect his company’s bottom line.

  • Parmy Olson
The company gets some 81 per cent of its revenue from online advertising, which amounted to $US147 billion last year.

Google mandates vaccines for employees returning to the office

Google is rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses around the world are fully reopened.

  • Michael Liedtke
Google has been trying to get one of the three bigger Australian media companies over the line.

EU turns up the heat on Google with fresh probe

Google faces a sweeping European Union probe into its advertising technology, a move that strikes at the heart of the tech giant’s business model.

  • Aoife White
Under pressure. Google chief executive Sundar Pichai.

Google chief Sundar Pichai’s leadership under scrutiny

It is hard to argue that things aren’t going great for Google, but as cracks in the tech giant start to appear, questions are being asked about chief Sundar Pichai.

  • Daisuke Wakabayashi