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Susan Wojcicki dies of cancer at age 56

August 10, 2024 2:09 am

Former Youtube CEO and longtime Google executive Susan Wojcicki has died at age 56, according to her husband. “My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children […]

Lithium battery starts fire at Google

January 24, 2024 1:49 pm

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A lithium battery has malfunctioned and caught on fire at Google’s offices in Mountain View, firefighters said. The battery was sitting in a […]

Bill requiring Big Tech to pay for news passes state Assembly

June 1, 2023 6:10 pm

A bill that would force Big Tech companies to pay media outlets for posting and using their news content cleared another critical hurdle Thursday (June 1). Assembly Bill 886 is […]

Bill would make Google, Meta pay for local news they distribute

May 2, 2023 6:29 pm

Big Tech companies such as Google and Meta might soon have to pay media outlets for posting and using their news content under a proposed California measure attempting to save […]

Tip from Google results in arrest of man on child porn charges

August 23, 2021 10:51 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Redwood City man is facing seven felonies that allege he possessed child pornography, a prosecutor said today (Aug. 23). In June, Redwood […]

Google delays return to office, will require all employees to have vaccinations

July 28, 2021 2:26 pm

Google is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses […]

Google employees get the ‘all clear’ after suspicious package is found

January 15, 2021 11:06 am

12:05 p.m. — A suspicious package found at a Google building this morning has been examined and rendered safe, Mountain View police said. The package was not blown up, but […]

Google workers form new labor union, a tech industry rarity

January 4, 2021 2:02 pm

A group of Google engineers and other workers announced today (Jan. 4) they have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry. About […]

Large Google Landings development goes to council on Tuesday night

June 22, 2020 1:40 pm

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View City Council on Tuesday (June 23) will vote on Google’s proposal to build an office building on Landings Drive that would […]

Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page talk to reporters at a 2008 news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View. AP photo by Paul Sakuma.

Google co-founders Page and Brin stepping down from Alphabet

December 3, 2019 2:50 pm

The co-founders of Google announced today they’re stepping down as executives of its parent company, Alphabet, ending a remarkable two decades during which Larry Page and Sergey Brin shaped a […]

Google’s plan for massive office buildings on the Landings site moves ahead

October 7, 2019 9:00 am

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View City Council is fine with Google’s plans to build an office building as large as 40 Midtown Safeways on Landings Drive. […]

Opinion: Google’s $1 billion housing offer not what it seems

June 25, 2019 8:00 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor “Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.” That observation penned by Plato applies to Google’s announcement that it […]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. AP file photo.

Google to invest $1 billion in housing

June 18, 2019 11:12 am

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced today (June 18) that the company’s plans to invest $1 billion in housing across the Bay Area. “Our goal is to help communities succeed over […]

7 developments would add 40,000 jobs but only 11,424 homes

March 31, 2019 1:04 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Mid-Peninsula will possibly see a 10.1 million-square-foot increase in office space in coming years. That number comes from just seven projects proposed […]

Rep. Speier calls on Google, Apple to remove app that helps Saudi men track their women

February 23, 2019 9:10 am

San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier is trying to pressure Google and Apple into removing a restrictive Saudi Arabian phone app that allows men to track women and migrant workers. Speier […]

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Suit accuses Google of covering up sex harassment by senior executives

January 12, 2019 1:18 am

A shareholder has sued the board of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, for allegedly tolerating and covering up sexual harassment by senior executives and giving some of them millions of dollars […]

Google buys Space Systems Loral site in south Palo Alto for $70 million

December 12, 2018 2:13 am

By the Daily Post staff Google has paid $70 million to buy 4.6 acres in south Palo Alto that’s home to Space Systems Loral, a Google spokeswoman confirmed yesterday (Dec. […]

Google proposes 6-story building, offers city $52 million

December 9, 2018 11:20 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Google is offering the city of Mountain View a $52 million package of public benefits in exchange for being allowed to build a […]

Voters in three cities approve tech taxes; targets include Amazon and Google

November 8, 2018 12:12 pm

By EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Voters in three Bay Area cities — Mountain View, East Palo Alto and San Francisco — have all passed so-called “tech taxes.” In […]

Google identifies employee killed by one of its buses

November 7, 2018 4:19 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Google officials today (Nov. 7) said a pedestrian who was hit and killed by a company shuttle was Chenxue “Emily” Hong, a Google […]

Pedestrian killed by car near Googleplex

November 5, 2018 10:00 pm

By the Daily Post staff A pedestrian was killed Monday night (Nov. 5) after she was hit by a vehicle near the Google headquarters in Mountain View. The accident was […]

Opinion: Did any Googlers quit in protest yesterday?

November 2, 2018 2:20 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I read yesterday (Nov. 1) several accounts of the protests at Google by employees who said they were outraged over sexual harassment at […]

Waymo gets DMV approval to operate cars without drivers

October 30, 2018 3:01 pm

Waymo, the robotic car company created by Google, yesterday received DMV approval to operate driverless cars in California at speeds up to 65 miles per hour. The self-driving cars have traveled […]

Opinion: Why Mountain View’s proposed head tax is a dumb idea

July 5, 2018 5:55 pm

IOPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I cringed when I watched Mountain View City Council stumble its way into putting an employee head tax on the November ballot the […]

Mountain View to ask voters if they want to tax big employers such as Google

June 27, 2018 6:25 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View voters will decide in November whether to charge the city’s large businesses a vastly increased per-employee business tax, which could hit […]

Google and Facebook need competition

April 16, 2018 2:21 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Because Menlo Park and the mid-Peninsula is essentially a company town for Facebook, there was an unusual interest here in CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s […]

Doctor offers a hypothesis about how Google engineer died

April 9, 2018 6:18 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Why Chuchu Ma spoke about “going into the water” on a disoriented 911 call the day before her naked body was found in […]