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The H-1B has given me so many opportunities. But even after 12 years, my life in the US feels unstable and temporary because of it.

Surbhi Madan, a senior software engineer at Google, says her life and career in the US feel temporary because of her visa.

Google to pay $36M fine for anticompetitive deals with Australia’s largest telcos

MELBOURNE, Austalia (AP) — Google has agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine for signing ...

She studied at a top U.S. university, works as a senior techie at Google, yet H-1B visa jitters shadow her American dream

Despite a stellar career trajectory from Brown University to Google, Surbhi Madan, an Indian-born software engineer, grapples ...

Maryland tax on digital ads violated Big Tech’s free speech, judges say

A federal appeals court has ruled that part of a first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising in Maryland aimed at Big Tech ...
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Data brokers face new pressure for hiding opt-out pages from Google

After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insisted the ...

TeraWulf stock jumps as Google ups stake in bitcoin miner to 14%

Bitcoin miner and data center operator TeraWulf saw its stock jump nearly 11% after announcing that Alphabet-owned Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is upping its stake in the company to 14%.
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Google increases TeraWulf stake to 14% with $3.2 billion backing

TeraWulf shares jumped 12% on Monday after Google raised its ownership in the crypto mining and data center company. The ...