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Google parent-company Alphabet’s urban innovation unit has announced plans to develop a high-tech community from scratch in Toronto.

Barry C. Lynn, a former senior fellow at the New America Foundation who was fired after criticizing Google, claimed this week democracy could be threatened by technology monopolies.

Civil rights attorney James Finberg is considering filing discrimination lawsuits on behalf of over sixty current and former female Google employees.

The number of federally registered political lobbyists has fallen by 14 percent thus far in 2017 from the 2016 total. However, based on data provided by the non-partisan OpenSecrets.org, spending by lobbyists is on track to rise by about 3 percent in 2017.

Waymo claims in a recent court filing that former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was aware that one of Uber’s engineers was in possession of information taken from Google.

U.S. stock markets charged to record highs last week, but a Goldman Sachs downgrade knocked down the so called FAAMG tech stocks that have led the Trump stock boom.

Google could be facing a $9 billion fine from the European Union (EU) following a seven-year investigation into the search engine.

Vietnam’s government claims that Google’s parent company Alphabet will help censor “toxic content” in the country, according to a statement.

Bank of America just warned that America’s next social justice movement will be “Occupy Silicon Valley,” which will demand a redistribution of wealth from liberal tech moguls to workers.

Uber have threatened to fire one of their engineers unless he gives back documents from his previous employer Waymo.

The top executive to Google’s parent company, Alphabet, says any restrictions on the H-1B foreign guest worker visa is the “stupidest policy” in the U.S.

According to Business Insider’s 2017 Digital Trust survey, Facebook and YouTube are regarded by consumers as having the most annoying advertisements.

Google’s parent company Alphabet lost around $20 billion in value last week, due to a 2% drop in its share prices as a result of a coordinated advertising boycott by big companies worried about their advertising being placed next to inappropriate content.

Uber has suspended its multi-state testing program for autonomous vehicles after one of its self-driving Volvos flipped up on its side after an accident.

Perspective is a new A.I from Google designed to “improve” your conversations online. Are you ready to be “improved?”

The MIT Technology Review recently published an article demonstrating that Google’s new comment detection system, Perspective, seems to have difficulty differentiating offensive words or controversial subjects from actual hate speech.

The Podesta Group and Alphabet, both of whom donated top talent to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, are no longer in business together.

Google recently resigned from Uber’s board as the former partners prepare for battle over self-driving cars. Away from California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ effort to mediate the battle between Uber and the state Department of Motor Vehicles over the unpermitted deployment of self-driving cars — which were pulled off the street Wednesday — the corporate fight is intensifying.

When President-elect Donald Trump “magnanimously” met with $3 trillion worth of Silicon Valley tech CEOs that actively opposed his candidacy, he very publicly booted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as payback for alleged bias against his campaign.

Despite growing Silicon Valley tech layoffs, and disappointing third quarter performance from Apple and Twitter, Google’s parent, Alphabet, reported an annual 20 percent revenue surge, 25 percent earnings spike, and 10,000 additional employees.

A document attached to a leaked email from Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, made public by WikiLeaks, appear to show Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, working directly with the Clinton campaign.

Disney has significant advantages over other bidders to acquire Twitter. First, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey serves on Disney’s Board of Directors. But the biggest advantage is that Disney owns a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the tech spinout from Major League Baseball that owns the app powering Twitter’s streaming of NFL games on the web.

Mexican fast food chain Chipotle is working with Alphabet, the parent company behind Google, to deliver burritos via drone for students at Virginia Tech.

(Reuters) — Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) has put Boston Dynamics, part of its robotics division, up for sale for lack of revenue potential, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the plans.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alphabet now comes before Apple atop the list of the world’s most valuable companies.

Alphabet is doubling down on investments by its subsidiary into artificial intelligence and leveraging a digitized cortex to manage its flagship service.

In moves that just get weirder every day, Google–now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet–has revealed that it owns abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.

The new company will be called “Alphabet,” Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page announced Monday.