GlaxoSmithKline and Alphabet’s life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a new field of medicine known as bioelectronics. Verily Life Sciences–known as Google’s life sciences unit until last year–and Britain’s biggest drug maker will together contribute 540 million pounds ($715.12 million) over…
http://fortune.com/2016/08/01/google-alphabet-glaxosmithkline-bioelectronics/
Former public accounts committee chair Margaret Hodge says figure shows Google UK is ‘not a back office support operation’ Google’s 2,300 staff in the UK earned an average wage of £160,000 each last year, despite the group’s insistence that its British operation is a modest outpost of the company’s global empire. Margaret Hodge, the former […]
The agreement followed an ‘open audit’ of its accounts by UK tax authorities.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/22/google-will-pay-130million-in-uk-back-taxes-5639793/
