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Google and Intel had the most active corporate VC firms last year

by Tess Townsend

GV’s biggest investments in 2016 were Oscar, Stripe and Grail.

Self-driving cars are an ‘existential crisis’ for Uber, ‘Upstarts’ author Brad Stone says

by Eric Johnson

And that’s why Uber might beat Google and Apple.

A breakthrough in Alphabet’s balloon-based internet project means it might actually work

by April Glaser and Tess Townsend

The Loon project says these advancements shorten their timeline for deployment.

Alphabet is sending hundreds of staff from its internet access unit to Google

by Tess Townsend

The subsidiary, called Access, also has a new CEO.

Alphabet’s venture arm wants you to give money to the ACLU

by Tess Townsend

GV, or Google Ventures, has added a button to its website for donations to the civil liberties defense nonprofit.

Google’s former security chief is retiring from the company

by Tess Townsend

Eric Grosse confirmed today that he is leaving Google after a decade with the company.

The Google Car was supposed to disrupt the car industry. Now Waymo is taking on suppliers.

by Johana Bhuiyan

Waymo’s move to bring its hardware manufacturing in-house shows the company’s attempt to edge out suppliers like Delphi and Mobileye.

Sundar Pichai makes the case for Google versus Alexa

by Tess Townsend

Google’s CEO says voice search is just part of the bigger search puzzle — and that Google has some real advantages.

Google shares are down after missing on fourth-quarter earnings

by Tess Townsend

Alphabet’s sales beat expectations, but profits fell short.

Alphabet’s health-tech company, Verily, is getting $800 million from a Singapore investment firm

by Tess Townsend

The investment should take some weight off Alphabet to fund R&D for the medical business.

Mobile search and YouTube are still driving Google’s growth. What about hardware?

by Tess Townsend

That’s one thing we’ll look for in Google’s fourth-quarter results, set for Thursday after the bell.

Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news

by Tess Townsend

The company routinely weeds out “bad ads.” Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.

Nest has hired back robotics whiz Yoky Matsuoka as CTO

by Tess Townsend

Matsuoka recently left Apple, where she was working on health tech.

Ads for Google products topped Google search results 91 percent of the time

by Tess Townsend

The Wall Street Journal has data to demonstrate a long-suspected conflict of interest.

Sony Pictures would make an interesting buy for a tech giant

by Edmund Lee

Exclusive movies and TV shows might entice Amazon or Apple or Facebook or Alphabet.

Alphabet’s Waymo says it has cut the cost of crucial self-driving car technology by 90 percent

by Jason Del Rey

The key? Building it in-house.

Platforms must take responsibility for fake news, Tom Friedman says

by Eric Johnson

And if they don’t? “That is bullshit” and they should be shamed, the New York Times columnist adds on Recode Decode.

What Trump said about Apple, Alphabet and Facebook — the tech companies he’s meeting this week

by Eric Johnson

Not pretty.

Alphabet’s plans for drone delivery are a fantasy

by April Glaser

Project Wing won’t be profitable in the U.S. for years, if it even takes off.

Former Google Ventures CEO Bill Maris is raising a new $230 million fund to focus on health care (updated)

by Kara Swisher

Maris left earlier this year.

The head of Google’s Fiber business is leaving

by Kara Swisher

CEO Craig Barratt departs as the company halts rollouts to new cities with layoffs coming.

The drone delivery boss at Alphabet’s X lab is out

by April Glaser

Dave Vos is leaving Project Wing.

Google’s X is flying its internet balloons over Yellowstone

by April Glaser

We see you, Loon balloon.

The Google X moonshot factory is struggling to get products out the door

by Mark Bergen

Why?

Google Fiber is pulling back on its broadband rollout as pressure grows to cut costs

by Mark Bergen

Another bump in the road for Alphabet.

A satellite exec is taking over Project Loon, the internet balloon program born at Google

by Mark Bergen

Tom Moore, an SVP from ViaSat, is taking the reins.

Google started on self-driving cars before Uber existed, but Uber is getting to consumers first

by Mark Bergen and Johana Bhuiyan

For Uber, autonomous tech is “basically existential.”

Google Ventures’ new chief, David Krane, is the überconnector

by Mark Bergen

The company swapped the dreamer for the networker.

Google Ventures founder Bill Maris: ‘I’m leaving because everything is great.’

by Mark Bergen

The investor talks about his decision to leave.

Bill Maris, the CEO and founder of Google Ventures, is leaving

by Mark Bergen

Managing partner David Krane is said to be taking his place.

Google Fiber wants to start testing wireless internet to homes in over a dozen U.S. cities

by Mark Bergen

Beam it down, Larry.

One year later, Alphabet is a tale of two Googles

by Mark Bergen

The highlights and lowlights from a year of the weirdest corporate structure ever invented.

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