Google CEO Sundar Pichai says his company will add 10,000 new staffers this year and invest $7 billion in new offices and data centers, including its under-construction regional headquarters in Cambridge’s Kendall Square.
Silicon Valley and Seattle giants – Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter – were the first to send their employees home as the virus spread to the U.S. Now they’re among the last to return them to the office. Some of their employees might never go back.
Traditional bankers’ fears of Big Tech companies jumping into the banking sector could be starting to come true.
The sum from Apple eclipses $1 billion pledges by fellow Silicon Valley giants Google and Facebook for addressing the lack of affordable housing in a region where affluent tech workers have helped drive up the cost of homes.
Grow, if you know what’s good for you – that’s one of the key takeaways from a recent Boston Consulting Group report on the challenges community banks face from “digital powerhouses” intent on encroaching on their customer base.
The number of college graduates with tech degrees in Greater Boston’s increased 61 percent between 2012 and 2017, and the region ranks seventh out of 50 North American markets in CBRE’s annual tech talent scorecard.
Last week, Google announced to some acclaim it would spend $1 billion to build 15,000 market-rate and 5,000 affordable homes in the housing-starved San Francisco Bay area. Before any like-minded Massachusetts actors get a similar idea, we suggest a better use of that money would be helping efforts to modernize our mass transit and suburban zoning laws.
Google’s workspaces in Cambridge’s Kendall Square will grow to 850,000 square feet with construction of a new 400,000-square-foot office tower and renewals for two other leases at Boston Properties’ Kendall Center development.
Boston Properties has kicked off permitting for a redevelopment of a prime Kendall Square property to accommodate Google’s expansion in the Cambridge tech hub.
Marlborough-based Digital Federal Credit Union has abandoned Google, its primary vendor for enterprise search and discovery, in an effort to be more secure.
