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Authorities in Mountain View said a reported suspicious package Friday morning at Google’s headquarters was deemed safe and cleared the scene just before noon, according to Mountain View police.

The Google-owned company took down the account following similar actions by Facebook and Twitter.

A growing segment of corporate America’s biggest names have denounced last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by devotees of President Donald Trump who sought to overturn Joe Biden’s election as president, with many saying they will halt or suspend political donations.

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The newly-formed employee union criticized YouTube’s response to violence, including Wednesday’s D.C. events.

The Google-owned company, unlike Facebook and Twitter, has not yet suspended President Trump’s account.

Workers have attempted to organize but without a formal union, they’ve been limited.

Dozens of more states are joining an escalating effort to prove Google has been methodically abusing its power as the internet’s main gateway in a way that hurts consumers habitually feeding personal information into its search engine and advertisers pouring billions of dollars into its vast marketing network

It comes nearly a year after a $1 billion investment round led by Silver Lake.

Connecticut joined a coaltion of 38 other states and U.S. territories Thursday in a lawsuit against Google over its internet search function. The lawsuit alleges that Google illegally maintains a monopoly over general search engines and related advertising through contracts and conduct that exclude competitors. Attorneys general from the coaltion claim Google’s actions are a multi-part effort that deprives...

It comes after executives admitted to losing the trust of employees amid the departure of renowned researcher Timnit Gebru.

The major contenders at the 2020 Academy Awards dominated the list of the most-searched movies

Google has delayed its plan for employees to return to the office, moving the date from July to September 2021, according to a staff memo sent Sunday night by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

The company said it expects employees to live near offices and go into work three days a week.

A significant outage struck Google’s platforms globally Monday morning, taking down YouTube, Gmail and a host of other popular services for about an hour. Users encountered error messages any time they tried to access the affected services, which also included productivity tools like Docs and Sheets, smart home services like Nest and educational tools like Google Classroom. DownDetector showed...

World leaders topped the list of Google’s most-searched people in 2020

The election and coronavirus dominated the 5 most searched topics in 2020, according to Google.

The circumstances of Timnit Gebru’s departure “seeded doubts and led some in our community to question their place at Google,” CEO Sundar Pichai wrote.

The Timnit Gebru affair touches four issues troubling Google employees in recent years: ethics in AI, treatment of women and Black employees, and transparency.

Timnit Gebru’s colleagues and petitioners claim she did not resign, and point to inconsistencies in Google AI chief Jeff Dean’s statements.