Offstream
news

---

Changes

1. Google lays off hundreds of its core engineers and others working on Google Assistant and its hardware products.
   2024-01-11 21:09:28 (First version)
2. Google lays off hundreds of its core engineers and others working on Google Assistant and Google's hardware products.
   2024-01-13 17:09:54 (Update)
3. Google lays off hundreds of employees in its core engineering team, and others working on Google Assistant and Google's hardware products.
   (Current version)

---

Related

Several Google services go down without warning around 11:50 UTC, including YouTube, Google Search, and the Google Play Store. The chatting app Discord and mobile video game "Pokémon Go" also go down. The cause was revealed to be an “authentication system outage” by the Google Cloud Twitter account.
2020-12-14

Google announces it will ban targeted ads that use voter data, effective within a week.
2019-11-20

Google announces that it is setting aside $750 million in land and $250 million in financing to encourage developers in the San Francisco area to build and rehabilitate housing, in order to ease the homeless crisis in a region where Google has 45,000 employees.
2019-06-18

Google calls one of its search engine websites "Google Palestine" instead of "Google Palestinian territories".
2013-05-3

Google announces plans to make the U.S. city of Kansas City, Kansas the first site in its ultra-high speed broadband network.
2011-03-30

China denies it is disrupting access to Google's email service in the country.
2011-03-22

The protests continue in Egypt for a fifteenth day, hours after a detained Google executive is released with the crowds the biggest yet.
2011-02-8

After the Egyptian government censorship of social media websites (such as Twitter, Facebook and Google), internet access and SMS networks are cut off in response to anti-government protests.
2011-01-28

The Organization of American States urges Nicaragua and Costa Rica to withdraw their security forces from an island in the San Juan river. Google is blamed for the dispute and revises its maps.
2010-11-14