In the suburban community of Kirkland, Wash., where Google established its original beachhead in the Seattle area, the tech giant had big plans to expand even further. The City of… Read More
Google parent Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its global workforce, as it becomes the latest tech company to make cuts amid a fears of a… Read More
Google’s got a thing for Seattle health tech startups. The tech giant acquired Sound Life Sciences, a small University of Washington spinout that developed an app to monitor breathing, GeekWire… Read More
Winter is coming, and Waymo is here for it. Specifically, the autonomous driving company is in Bellevue, Wash., where it has started testing the fifth generation of its Waymo Driver… Read More
Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced Tuesday that they are stepping down from their roles as CEO and president, respectively, at Google parent Alphabet. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will become… Read More
Two long-serving members of Alphabet’s board of directors who also played prominent roles as executives at the company plan to leave its board in June, Alphabet announced Tuesday. The board… Read More
Alphabet’s Wing venture has stolen a march on Amazon’s plans for drone domination by winning air carrier certification from the Federal Aviation Administration. “Air Carrier Certification means that we can… Read More
It has been nearly two years since Google quietly acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle startup that figured out how to turn ordinary smartphones into monitoring devices to detect pulmonary function,… Read More
Microsoft has taken the top spot on the annual “Just 100” list of the most responsible U.S. companies, compiled by Forbes and the nonprofit Just Capital, which ranked the companies… Read More
Google’s sister company, Sidewalk Labs, is reconceiving urban planning with one big, high-stakes experiment on Toronto’s waterfront. The company is partnering with Toronto’s government to build Quayside, an innovation district… Read More
Google parent Alphabet spent a whopping $5.5 billion on capital expenditures in the most recent quarter, nearly doubling that output from a year ago as the company continues to expand… Read More
Two of Google’s best-known flights of fancy, Project Loon and Project Wing, are being hatched from their X incubator to become independent businesses under the wing of Alphabet, Google’s holding… Read More
A week after taking the top spot in a ranking that measures brand reputation in the eyes of the public, Amazon is No. 1 on another list that casts the… Read More
Amazon passed Google parent Alphabet in market value, and now only Apple is worth more based on that measure. Amazon ended the day with a market value of $766.5 billion… Read More
Over the past year, analysts from a Sidewalk Labs spinout called Coord have been playing a game of “would you rather?” with Seattle drivers. Would you rather shoot for rockstar parking… Read More
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced Thursday afternoon that Eric Schmidt, who has played an outsized role in Google’s transformation from grad school science project to one of the… Read More
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Why does the Captain of Moonshots wear roller skates to work? That may sound like the start of a joke, but Astro Teller provides a mostly serious… Read More
As every renter in San Francisco and Seattle knows, the tech industry can be a big contributor to the lack of affordable housing in urban areas. But Google’s sister company,… Read More
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to clarify Doctoroff’s comments. Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff is enamored with Toronto, where his company is partnering with the local government to… Read More
Shares in Google parent company Alphabet are up after the company exceeded Wall Street expectations in the third quarter. Alphabet posted earnings of $9.57 per share on $27.7 billion in… Read More
Sidewalk Labs, a division of Google parent Alphabet Inc., announced plans Tuesday to study a bold redevelopment of the Toronto waterfront, bringing smart city technologies and a potential new headquarters… Read More
Google parent Alphabet recorded a 21 percent jump in revenue during its second quarter of the year, and even though net income was down compared to last year courtesy of… Read More
Amazon stock is close to hitting $1,000 per share for the first time, another indication of the e-commerce giant’s growing strength. As Amazon trumpeted its 2016 accomplishments at its annual shareholder… Read More
Google parent company Alphabet saw shares rise after beating analyst expectations for its first quarter earnings report. Alphabet, the holding company that includes Google, posted $24.8 billion in revenue, beating the $24.2 billion Wall… Read More
Thursday is the mother lode of tech earnings. Three of the top five most valuable tech companies by market cap — Amazon, Microsoft and Google parent company Alphabet — as well… Read More
Despite our ever-advancing medical technology, there’s still a lot we don’t know about how people develop some of the world’s top killers, including cancer and heart disease. A new project… Read More
Google parent company Alphabet saw shares fall slightly after missing analyst expectations for its fourth quarter earnings report. Alphabet, the holding company that includes Google, posted $26 billion in revenue, beating the $25.2… Read More
Following Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, one analyst thinks the Redmond, Wash. tech giant is on pace to become the first tech company to reach a market value of… Read More
You don’t hear as much about Google’s (now Alphabet X’s) Project Wing as you do about Amazon’s Prime Air drones, but the flying-delivery project is still aiming to go commercial. That’s… Read More
If you wanted a Starbucks latte with your drone-delivered Chipotle burrito, it appears you’re going to have to wait a while as a new report says that the Seattle-based coffee… Read More