15 April, 2021
Ethical investor Trillium issues warning to Alphabet over whistleblowing
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is under pressure to improve whistleblowing procedures in a move that heightens publicity around the ethics of artificial intelligence and the treatment of work...
16 September, 2020
Vanguard takes big names to task over pay and climate policies
The world’s second largest asset manager has, for the first time, gone public on the companies it is engaging with and the issues at the top of its agenda. In an
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 ...
25 January, 2020
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI and quantum computing
The combination of AI and quantum computing will help us tackle some of the biggest problems we see, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said at Davos 2020. "When I look at the future and say 'ho...
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
