The Country Life publisher has appointed Meta’s Ivana Kirkbride to its board as a non-executive director from 15 December.

Natasja Laheij and Jose Manuel Martinéz Gutiérrez are joining the board of the online fashion retailer today.

Shalini Govil-Pai and Devesh Mishra will this week join the board of the international research and data analytics group.

Artificial intelligence has prompted huge interest and questions about whether the technology and the law are ready for robots on boards.

All-Party Parliamentary Group argues for greater transparency around tax deals struck by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and big corporates.

The asset manager has filed a shareholder resolution calling for Alphabet, Google’s parent company, to review its whistleblowing policies.

Uber, Ocado, Alphabet and Rio Tinto are among the companies named in the global asset manager’s report into governance concerns.

Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft face scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission over whether acquisitions of small tech firms were “anticompetitive”.

The combination of AI and quantum computing will help us tackle some of the biggest problems we see, says Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Pressure grows on social media companies, the economy slows in South Korea, France and Italy fall out, while Alphabet and Shell go fly a kite.