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• Google's parent company Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs

  Alphabet CEO, Sundar Pichai, told employees on Friday that the company would be reducing its global workforce by around six per cent.

• How Google Cloud is helping Asia in the fight against coronavirus

  Google Cloud is helping mitigate rising coronavirus concerns in Asia through increased collaboration at public and private sector levels.

• Tech giants to testify on data privacy

  Six major web companies and internet-service providers will detail their consumer data privacy practices to a U.S. Senate panel on 26 September.

• Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet chase trillion-dollar Apple

  Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet are locked in a tight race to become the second publicly-listed U.S. company to reach a US$1 trillion.

• Escalating costs see Google’s Alphabet operating margin shrink

  ​Strong growth in ad sales on Google search and YouTube were not enough to offset a surge in costs at parent company Alphabet.

• Gloves come off as Microsoft takes data privacy fight to Supreme Court

  Supreme Court justices wrestled with Microsoft over whether prosecutors can force tech companies to hand over data stored overseas.

• Google parent makes play for enterprise cyber security market

  Alphabet has launched a new business unit that will sell cyber security software to Fortune 500 companies.

• Google security patches aren't slowing down cloud services

  Alphabet's subsidiary said patches against the Spectre and Meltdown chipset were deployed last year.