TIM to spin off data centre operations
Looking for an investor
Telecom Italia (TIM) plans to spin off its data centre operations and look for an investor ahead of a potential market listing, after announcing a partnership with Google to develop its cloud business.
US claims it has enough antitrust laws to bring down big tech
Just does not use them
The US Justice Department antitrust chief said that existent US antitrust laws were “flexible enough” to address the harm caused by technology companies, in the face of growing criticism that such laws cannot tackle tech monopolies.
Google open sources Cardboard
Recycling
Search engine Google is open-sourcing its Cardboard viewers to make sure that the “no-frills, accessible-to-everyone” VR project does not go to waste.
One final software update for Pixel
Then life support will be cut off
Google will release "one final software update" next month for the original Google Pixel and Pixel XL, despite releasing nothing during its November security update for all the other Pixel phones.
Google work slaves revolt over big oil
I'm Spartacus
Activists inside Google are calling on management to ditch deals with oil and gas companies, the latest flare-up inside the technology giant.
Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion
Will take on Apple and Samsung
Google has written a $2.1 billion cheque to buy exercise outfit Fitbit as part of a cunning plan to take on Apple and Samsung in the crowded market for fitness trackers and smartwatches.
Google makes an offer for Fitbit
Wants to get into the fitness tracker business
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire US wearable device maker Fitbit as part of a cunning plan to get into the market for fitness trackers and smartwatches.
Google in hot water with staff again
Turns out they now have a manager who helped Trump "separate families"
Google executives are in trouble with their staff after misleading them over the role of a former top Department of Homeland Security official who had recently joined the company was "not involved in the family separation policy".
Google accused of spying on workers
Thinks getting eviler
Google employees are accusing the company's leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers' attempts to organize protests and discuss labour rights.
Google's quantum computer claims neither dead nor alive
IBM disputes Google claims
IBM is disputing the much-vaunted claim that Google has hit a new milestone with its quantum computing.