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In this March 12, 2016, photo Google co-founder Sergey Brin speaks during a press conference after finishing the third match of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
July 10, 2025, 1:01 pm
Google co-founder decries ‘antisemitic’ UN for report on tech aid to Gaza ‘genocide’
Sergey Brin said to tell employees they should ‘be careful citing transparently antisemitic’ UN, after report says company’s cloud support of Israel enables Gaza war crimes
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators carry a banner and block an entrance to the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California on May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
May 15, 2024, 8:28 am
Hundreds protest business deal with Israel at Google conference
Demonstrators chain themselves together, accuse search giant and Israel of using Project Nimbus to commit genocide in Gaza
By ToI Staff
Google employees hold a sit-protest against Israel at the company's offices, April 16, 2024. (X video screenshot; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 24, 2024, 12:56 am
Google fires more workers for ‘disruptive’ protests over contract with Israel
Group that organized last week’s action against ‘Project Nimbus’ says over 50 workers axed in total; tech giant says they ‘physically disrupted’ other employees
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The Google office building in New York, February 26, 2024. (Seth Wenig/AP)
April 18, 2024, 10:35 am
Google fires 28 employees who staged anti-Israel protests at company offices
Demonstrations opposing business with Israeli government and led by No Tech for Apartheid group included 10-hour sit-ins at offices in New York and California; 9 people arrested
By ToI Staff
A Google Cloud engineer interrupts a speech by Google Israel Managing Director Barak Regev at the Mind the Tech conference in New York City, March 4, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 10, 2024, 2:44 pm
Google sacks employee for protesting during speech by company’s Israel chief
Engineer interrupts Barak Regev’s talk at New York tech conference, says he refuses to build tech powering ‘genocide, apartheid, or surveillance’
By Michael Horovitz
Colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, in an undated photo. (AP/Google, Connie Zhou)
October 24, 2022, 10:57 pm
Google’s first local cloud region for Israel goes live
New network part of $1.2b Nimbus project to bring cloud-based regional data centers and services to government, public entities; expected to boost economic growth, employment
By Ricky Ben-David
A Google building at the company's campus in Mountain View, California, on Sept. 24, 2019. (AP/Jeff Chiu)
March 17, 2022, 11:29 am
Jewish Google employee claims her anti-Israel activism got her job moved to Brazil
Ariel Koren says that after she lobbied against company’s contract with Project Nimbus cloud-based storage, her role was relocated from California headquarters to Sao Paulo
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
November 1, 2021, 1:32 am
Two Jewish employees behind push to cancel Google’s $1.2 billion Israel contract
Ariel Koren and Gabriel Schubiner say deal to provide Jewish state with cloud-based data storage centers will contribute to surveillance of Palestinians and settlement expansion
By Eliyahu Kamisher
Colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, in an undated photo. (AP/Google, Connie Zhou)
October 13, 2021, 11:58 am
Anonymous Google, Amazon workers decry deal with Israel
In letter, hundreds of employees protest agreement for Nimbus project ‘to sell dangerous technology to the Israeli military and government’
By ToI Staff
Safra Catz, Oracle's CEO and Alon Ben Zur, CEO, Bynet Data Communications in Jerusalem; July 8, 2021 (Ezra Levy)
From the WebJuly 8, 2021, 4:47 pm
Oracle CEO Safra Catz underscores Israel support in Jerusalem data center launch
Calcalist: The Israeli government has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google for its $1 billion cloud services Nimbus project, ousting Oracle, Microsoft and IBM
Colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, in an undated photo. (AP/Google, Connie Zhou)
May 24, 2021, 6:47 pm
Israel signs deal for cloud services with Google, Amazon
Contracts ensure continuity of service even if tech giants may come under pressure to boycott Israel, Finance Ministry officials say
By Shoshanna Solomon
Colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, in an undated photo. (AP/Google, Connie Zhou)
April 21, 2021, 2:55 pm
Google, AWS win $1.2 billion Israel tender for cloud services
Two tech giants best Microsoft, IBM and Oracle to set up data centers and provide cloud services to local public entities with data secured within Israel’s borders
By Shoshanna Solomon
An illustrative image of a data center; server farm and a cloud service concept (noLimit46; iStock by Getty Images)
March 31, 2021, 12:57 pm
Amazon, Google reportedly oust Microsoft, Oracle in massive Israel cloud tender
International tech giants are contenders in a race to set up a cloud-based regional data center that will serve the entire public sector and military
By Shoshanna Solomon
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