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Big Tech CEOs including Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai slammed President Trump’s move to suspend an immigrant visa program that they say helps them recruit talent from abroad. Trump issued a proclamation Monday that temporarily halts several work-based immigration programs including H1-B visas, which allow American employers to hire immigrants …

Still-married former Google big Eric Schmidt has been spending time with his on-again-off-again gal pal, Alexandra Duisberg, again. The pair were rumored to be engaged last July: We exclusively reported the 30-something blonde was spotted wearing a pink sapphire ring, estimated to be 10 carats and worth millions. A source close to the couple at …

Google’s advertising business is experiencing a major slowdown due to the coronavirus-battered travel industry. The search giant will see its ad revenue drop for the first time in more than a decade, according to data from research firm eMarketer, as the travel industry — normally one of the platform’s most rock-solid spenders — pulls back …

Former Google CEO and chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board Eric Schmidt said that “there’s no question” Chinese telecom giant Huawei has business practices “not acceptable in national security.” Speaking to BBC Radio 4 for a documentary, Schmidt said that a proper understanding of Huawei should make one see the company as a means …

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Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) is proposing legislation that would set conditions for big tech companies to receive Section 230 immunity, Axios reported on Wednesday. The proposal comes less than a day after Google threatened to demonetize the right-wing political news website The Federalist unless the site removed its comments section. The legislation would require tech …

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Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) demanded in a Wednesday letter that Google CEO Sundar Pichai explain why the platform threatened to demonetize the right wing news website The Federalist over comments on articles related to recent Black Lives Matter protests. “As evidence by its actions yesterday, Google seems more than happy to play this censorship role …

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect new information from Google. Google is threatening to ban the right-wing political news website The Federalist from generating advertising revenue on the company’s platform, a Google spokesman told Adweek. Google says it will implement the ban because of posts in The Federalist’s comments section that allegedly violated …

Tech giant Google has barred ZeroHedge from its lucrative ad platform and threatened to boot The Federalist after finding “racist” content on their pages related to the Black Lives Matter movement. ZeroHedge, a mostly financial Web site that posts articles from anonymous writers, will no longer be able to rake in millions of dollars of ad …