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They do. SCRUM morning meeting in our case.

I don't particularly like them because I don't really care what 20 other people have been working on yesterday, and we generally unblock ourselves immediately instead of waiting for next day's meeting, so that's not helpful either.

Most teams that I know of at Amazon do. The 2 teams I have been on aren't so strict about the whole "you MUST stand up" part though.

While I was working at a completely unrelated company that started off as a book store and turned into a global online retailer and PaaS provider there was a period of several months when my team was doing standups every day of around a dozen people (devs, test, mgmt) which tended to last anywhere from half an hour to an hour and a half.

At Google it varies by team. Each team figures out what works for it. Outside of code reviews and code style, there is little that is dictated company wide.