As work from home takes centre stage, companies are coming up with new norms to address virtual workplace harassment, but lack of physical hearings and privacy issues pose challenges

\"Mark is wrong, and I will endeavor in the loudest possible way to change his mind,\" wrote Ryan Freitas, identified on Twitter as director of product design for Facebook's News Feed. He added he had mobilized \"50+ likeminded folks\" to lobby for internal change

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has the opportunity of a rejig in leadership at his hands with the exit of the Chief Legal Officer of Alphabet, David Drummond. Here's all that could happen at the parent company of Google

European Union parliamentary committee approved a bill giving internet companies an hour to remove terror-related material or face fines that could reach into the billions

Details of the exit package were revealed as part of a shareholder lawsuit against the company, one that followed a published report of payouts Google made to executives accused of sexual misconduct.

The allegations stem primarily from large severance payments to Andy Rubin, who led Google's Android mobile operating division until 2014, and Amit Singhal, head of Google's search unit until 2016.

Pichai said growing up in India was nice compared with today's worldbecause despite the lack of resources to buy even basic things, he never felt lacking for anything.

The reforms are the latest fallout from a broader societal backlash against men's exploitation of their female subordinates in business, entertainment and politics

Sundar Pichai said, \"We don't run the company by referendum.\"

Organizers said about 60 percent of Google's offices participated, including Dublin, the company's largest site outside the United States, as well as London, Zurich, Berlin and Singapore.

In Silicon Valley, women also are becoming fed up with the male-dominated composition of the technology industry's workforce a glaring imbalance that critics say fosters unsavoury behaviour akin to a college fraternity house.