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Fairfax Media is looking for new Sydney headquarters after agreeing to Google to take its remaining space at Pyrmont.
After almost a decade in the Mirvac-owned building at 1 Darling Island Road, Fairfax has assigned over its remaining 9000 square metre lease over three floors to Google, who had been subletting since 2013, a demoralising physical sign of the massive shift amid the digital age. 
Fairfax's lease was to run until 2027.
Google has already taken several floors in the 22,000 square metre building from Fairfax which signed up to the deal under its late chairman Sir Ron Walker.
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Fairfax has about 950 staff at Darling Island.
It is seeking between 8000 square metres and 10,000 square metres.
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Google is still looking for new long term headquarters as well.
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The Vaucluse home of Japan-based Google boss Karim Temsamani has failed to find a buyer through Sotheby's, so he's put it up for lease.
They were seeking $5.9 million on its February listing.
Backing on to Parsley Bay Reserve, the Hamptons style five bedroom, four bathroom home that cost Temsamani $4.5 million in 2010.
It has been priced at a cool $3,400 a week through SydneySlice agent Melanie La Pouple.
It is available from June, having been previously available on their departure in 2014 at $3000 a week. 
Temsamani is now Google's head of Asia-Pacific, having been Google Australia managing director.
The lower level comprises a self-contained bedroom and rumpus room with ensuite bathroom and direct access to the private level lawn.
It had been on the market for over 110 days. The no sale has stalled Temsamani's plans for a Silicon Valley purchase.
This article first appeared in the Daily Telegraph.
 
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Google has abandoned plans to move its Australian headquarters to Sydney's White Bay Power Station.
The tech giant had entered into exclusive negotiations with the NSW government last year to potentially take over the development of the 10-hectare site .
But the company said it would not be able to make the move within its timeframe.
The power station, the last from the early 20th century still standing in Sydney, sits on a 10-hectare harbourfront site.
“We are grateful to the NSW government and UrbanGrowth NSW for their efforts to deliver on their impressive vision for White Bay Power Station,” a Google spokesman said.
“Through the genuine and productive negotiations in the last few months we’ve come to realise that achieving that vision isn’t possible within our timeframe. So we’ve mutually agreed with UrbanGrowth NSW to discontinue negotiations over the site.”
The tech giant is currently headquartered at Pyrmont in the Accenture building across the street from The Star casino complex, and in Fairfax Media's building On Darling Island in Pyrmont in the Sydney CBD.
Google is thought to be looking for as much as 100,000sq m of space. 
The government, through its transformative arm UrbanGrowth, oversaw the earlier 13 bids, so will have to find an alternative solution for its vision of a "knowledge and technology" hub for the site.
The former premier Mick Baird said the aim was to create the "best technology precinct in the world", comparable with similar proposals like Roosevelt Island in New York.
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