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Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, has been put in charge of its parent company Alphabet, after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced they were stepping down.

The 47-year-old said the pair had set up a

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he would press ahead with a digital sales tax even after the US threatened to punish France for a similar move.

In a proposal first outlined last year, large online companies face a tax of 2% of UK sales from April 2020.

Mr Johnson said digital companies needed to make a "fairer

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Tesla founder Elon Musk has appeared in court in Los Angeles to answer a lawsuit brought by a British cave diver he called "pedo guy" on Twitter.

Vernon Unsworth, who helped rescue 12 boys trapped in a Thai cave last year, is

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An advert featuring a woman diving into a Deliveroo delivery bag to retrieve multiple food orders has been banned.

The Advertising Standards Authority said it might mislead viewers to think they "could order food from different restaurants to be delivered together".

The ASA received 300 complaints, the third highest of the

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Ireland set for boom in data centre funding
The vast majority of debt and equity investors expect funding into European data centres to increase over the next two years, according to research from law firm DLA Piper.
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