Test flight paves the way for trips with paying customers 

Planned closure of social network is being brought forward by four months

First details of case emerge at bail hearing in Vancouver for telecoms executive

Employee hit wrong key during training exercise, with error expected to cost $10m

Sundar Pichai expected to face grilling over privacy and political bias

Ex-Autonomy head resigns government advisory role and prestigious science positions

Leading UK tech entrepreneur faces 14 counts of conspiracy and fraud

Dan Ammann will move to driverless unit as it aims for ‘massive scale’

It has drawn level with Apple thanks to cloud services but shadow of regulation looms

Financial reserves dropped 10% in the first half of the year, Moody’s finds

Group’s push to sell more services to users brings into focus monopoly claims

The $8bn acquisition shows how serious European group is in challenging Salesforce

Outlay on buybacks almost doubles, putting investors among biggest beneficiaries of Trump tax reforms

Critics say appointment of Tesla director as chair will fail to rein in outspoken founder

Tech giant opens itself up to possible lawsuits after internal anger

The US is trying to prevent the transfer of AI-powered dual-use technologies that can be adapted for weapons

Tech giant’s renewed push could double number of staff there to sustain headlong growth

Divisive business levy was championed by Salesforce boss Marc Benioff

The UK’s proposal for a digital levy is the latest effort by European governments to force technology companies to pay more

Ginni Rometty aims for transformational deal to bring group out of the shade

Voters to decide at US midterms on ‘Prop C’ levy to tackle increasingly ‘visible’ problem