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YouTube said it removed a video uploaded by conservative commentator Steven Crowder for violating the platform’s coronavirus content policies.

YouTube’s refusal to remove a song some employees find racist to people of Asian origin has caused a fracas inside the company, the latest clash in a growing national debate about anti-Asian hate.

Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman Larry Ellison has spent the better part of a decade waging battle in U.S. courts and forging political alliances in Washington to win lucrative business and thwart adversaries.It’s all part of a high-stakes gamble to revive Oracle’s anemic revenue growth, which has averaged about 1% a year since 2012, and regain relevance in the face of a widening phalanx of upstarts eroding the company’s dominance in the business software market.

Alphabet Inc. said it will create a bonus program for senior executives that’s partly based on their performance in supporting environmental, social and governance goals.

Google’s results, showing a surge in ad sales related to travel and retail, offered a glimpse of online spending in a post-pandemic world: Businesses are boosting digital marketing to capture a public eager to resume something resembling normal life again.

Google will let Android mobile software users opt out of being tracked by advertisers on their smartphone applications, following an earlier move by rival Apple Inc. to bolster privacy on iPhones.

Google will open its first retail store in New York City, highlighting the internet giant’s effort to promote its consumer hardware devices.

Google-Microsoft Truce Crumbles Amid Feud Over Cloud, Ad Tech  Bloomberg

Google reported its best year yet for hiring Black employees, but rising departures of the same group highlights a risk to the company’s plan to double its Black workforce.

Google Faces Off With Amazon, Microsoft to Become a Cloud-Computing Giant  Bloomberg

Google delivered turbocharged sales growth in the past quarter, underscoring its status as the world’s most potent advertising engine. The internet giant took advantage of an uneven pandemic reopening, catering to homebound users spending more time on screens as well as consumers venturing out to shop and travel.

Google’s cloud-computing division unveiled tools to help clients monitor and reduce their environmental impact, part of the company’s broader push to fight climate change.

Google Quietly Tweaks Image Searches for Racially Diverse Results

Google Growth Overshadowed by Slower YouTube and Cloud Results

Google’s cloud services, which provide computing power for many major companies’ websites, have been fully restored after outages on Tuesday that were caused by a glitch in a network configuration.

Inside Google's Brewing Mental Health Crisis, Claims of Toxic Work Environment  Bloomberg

Google Searches for Way to Win Cloud Share From Amazon Web Services, Microsoft  Bloomberg

The group’s role is important inside and outside the company.

Google said it would bring its Privacy Sandbox initiative to Android phones, vowing to chart a less “blunt” path than rival Apple Inc., whose push to protect users’ personal information has dinged the digital advertising market.

Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car unit, said it would begin offering rides in San Francisco without a driver behind the wheel, seeking to catch up to rival Cruise on its home turf.