Kanye West has asked Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion.

 

Google investors hoping for detailed financial reporting across its range of individual businesses could be disappointed after a major shake-up of its organisational structure was announced.

Google announced that it is setting up a holding company called Alphabet, which will contain a collection of companies, including Google itself. One Twitter user could benefit greatly from this news.

Google is changing its structure. A new umbrella company, Alphabet, has been set up, which will contain a number of smaller companies, including Google.

Google, which has been expanding far beyond its original business of internet search advertising, is changing its operating structure by creating a new holding company called Alphabet.

Remember the days before Google’s Image Search function existed? Neither do we. But it hasn’t been around forever. In fact, it only came into existence in 2000 and we have Jennifer Lopez to thank. Well, her and the clever people at Google.

Google’s glory is it has increased access to information with the ingenuity of its search algorithm, says Richard Fitzpatrick

John Daly rounds up the best and most informative business, management, and financial books of the year

Google has taken a 60-year lease on a Nasa airfield next to its Silicon Valley headquarters near San Francisco.

Google has signed a long-term lease for part of a historic US navy air base, where it plans to renovate three massive hangars and use them for projects involving aviation, space exploration and robotics.

Lawyers acting for Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Cara Delevingne, and other stars whose private images were hacked have threatened to sue Google for $100m (€79m).

Google’s secretive research laboratory is trying to build a fleet of drones designed to by-pass earthbound traffic to deliver packages to people more quickly.

Ordering dog food just got more exciting – this farmer received his order via a Google “postman drone”.

You are so very old.

Technology giant Google has launched a new system that allows web users to request information about them be removed from search results in the wake of the "right to be forgotten" ruling.

Google is accepting requests from Europeans who want to purge unflattering information that pops up about them in Web links retrieved by the world’s dominant search engine.

Google is not immune to setbacks caused by the global shift to mobile computing.

Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s pay packet more than doubled to $19.3m (€14m) last year as a new compensation plan reduced the total amounts for three other top executives.

The 25th anniversary of the world wide web will be celebrated around the globe this week. The milestone will be marked on Wednesday, a quarter of a century since it was first proposed in 1989 by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

Google reported sales that topped estimates during the third quarter as advertisers boosted spending on mobile and video promotions.

Internet giant Google is celebrating its 15th birthday today.

A young British woman has been named as the new girlfriend of Sergey Brin after it emerged the Google co-founder and Anne Wojcicki were reportedly splitting up after six years of marriage.

Google, the world’s largest search engine, has been given 35 days by Britain’s data protection watchdog to remove wireless network data collected by its cars for its Street View service in the country.

Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest person.

Google faces possible fines after six EU data protection regulators started “co-ordinated” enforcement measures over the company’s failure to fix flaws in a new privacy policy.

A conservation group claims that Google has something in common with illicit ivory traders in China and Thailand – it says the internet search giant is helping fuel a dramatic surge in ivory demand in Asia which is killing African elephants at record levels.

Google’s stock price has topped $800 for the first time.

Having defected from Google to head up its struggling rival, Marissa Mayer faces a daunting challenge to revive moribund tech giant Yahoo!, but her first set of quarterly results gives some cause for optimism, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Google’s profit and sales are under pressure as the operator of the largest search engine struggles to wring advertising revenue from the growing number of people surfing the web on tablets and smartphones.

Google Inc inadvertently released its draft quarterly results hours ahead of schedule, significantly missing expectations on both revenue and earnings and wiping 9% off the market value of the internet search and advertising leader.

TO paraphrase Gandhi: First they ignore you.

Yahoo has hired long-time Google executive Marissa Mayer as its next chief executive in the internet company’s latest attempt to burnish its image and revive its financial growth after years of often-demoralising upheaval.

Internet search giant Google has unveiled plans for a new class of shares in a move that will allow its billionaire founders to retain long-term control of the company.

Google the world’s largest Internet-search company, reported first-quarterprofit that topped analysts’ estimates after demand for its newer services helped fuel growth.

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt plans to sell up to 2.4 million shares of stock currently worth nearly $1.5bn (€1.14bn).

The European Union’s data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it does not break data protection laws.

It’s one of the most eagerly awaited stock flotations in recent years and will value Facebook at about $100 billion (€77bn).

Internet giant Google is continuing to defy the economic turmoil after reporting a big jump in profits for the three months to September.

GOOGLE is looking to plug into solar power systems.

Internet search giant Google is looking to plug into solar power systems.

Google is spending $12.5bn (€8.6bn) to buy Motorola Mobility.

GOOGLE stepped up its assault on the smartphone and tablet computer market yesterday with the €8.7 billion acquisition of handset maker Motorola.

Google has made a big move in the smartphone and tablet market.