12 February, 2020
US regulator orders tech giants to release data on acquisitions
Corporate acquisitions by Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are to come under scrutiny as US regulators look to see if a series of tech acquisitions were “anticompetitive” and whether ...
29 April, 2019
Risk hotspots: a global roundup
Economy — South Korea Unemployment in South Korean hit a nine-year high of 4.4% in January, offering more bad news as the economy slows. Manufacturing and retail have seen the worst of the...
4 February, 2019
Data security poses growing ethics risk
Just a few weeks ago Google received a record €50m (£44m) fine under data protection regulation, sending out a clear warning that companies need to proceed with extreme caution when harvesting, sto...
3 December, 2018
Limits to shareholder voting rights mooted by investors
The long-running issue of shareholder voting rights has come to the fore again. A group of investors, including Legal & General and Dutch pension fund PGGM, wrote to both the New York Stock Exch...
5 November, 2018
How the Google walkout was no ordinary employee protest
On Thursday last week, using Google was no different from any other day. You typed in your search term and up came the results. However, a quick search on the browser would also reveal that many of...
18 May, 2018
Google CEO tops global reputation list
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is the world’s most reputable CEO, according to a new index by the Reputation Institute. ...
23 March, 2018
European Commission introduces tough tax laws for digital business
The European Commission has proposed rules to ensure that companies conducting business digitally in the European Union are paying their fair share of tax. Under the p...
22 December, 2017
Eric Schmidt steps down as chairman of Google owner
Eric Schmidt is to step down as executive chairman of Alphabet, the company which owns Google—the world's most influential tech company. Alphabet announced yesterday that Schmidt would end his 17...
8 August, 2017
Google employee fired over ‘gender differences’ email to staff
A Google employee has been fired over comments made to staff in an email, suggesting that gender differences in pay and roles were in part due to biological factors. The email, reportedly sent by a...
21 March, 2017
