Having it Both Ways: Google Cozies to Trump but Calls for His Impeachment
Posted: February 3, 2017 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama on social media, California, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Google, Melania Trump, Mountain View, President of the United States, Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, United States Leave a comment
After investing millions ingraining itself within the Obama White House, Google is suddenly on the outside looking in with the Trump administration — and it clearly has Google rattled — protesting Mr. Trump in private, and then publicly trying to cozy up with him the next.
impeached.“Some of us may need to adopt Pence 2017 bumper stickers,” Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin joked at a company sponsored anti-Trump protest — the biggest demonstration from a Silicon Valley corporation this week — in response to Mr. Trump’s controversial immigration executive order.
More than 2,000 Google employees attended the protest on Monday, with it becoming a trending topic on Twitter with the hashtag #GooglersUnite. The rally came 24 hours after Google donated $2 million to the ACLU and Immigrant Legal Resource Center, to help fight Mr. Trump’s executive order, which was matched by $2 million in donations from Google employees.
The week prior, Google lawyers flooded the California office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, demanding she oppose Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation as attorney general.
After investing millions ingraining itself within the Obama White House, Google is suddenly on the outside looking in with the Trump administration — and it clearly has Google rattled — protesting Mr. Trump in private, and then publicly trying to cozy up with him the next. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] WOZICON: Apple Co-founder Starts Silicon Valley Comic Con
Posted: February 22, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: Apple Inc, CNBC, Comicon, iPhone, Jan Koum, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Sundar Pichai, Whatsapp Leave a comment
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had a front-row seat as the personal computer began to reshape society, so it made perfect sense to him to bring a convention meshing technology with pop culture to Silicon Valley.
Google Announces 1B Total Android Activations, Names Next Version ‘KitKat’
Posted: September 3, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Android, Andy Rubin, Chrome, Consumer technology, Games, Google, San Francisco, Search Engines, Searching, Smartphones, Sundar Pichai Leave a comment
By Chris Velazco
Apple made waves this morning when it announced its oft-rumored September 10 event, but Google isn’t giving up the day’s limelight without a fight — according to a post on Sundar Pichai’s Google+ page, over one billion Android devices have been activated to date.
