Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has introduced several enterprise-specific security features in Chrome 63, the latest version of its browser announced Dec. 6. Among them are a new site isolation capability, better control over browser extensions and broader support for new security standards. In a blog announcing the new features, Google Product Manager Matt Blumberg this week also offered […]

Users of Amazon’s Fire TV may soon be unable to view YouTube content from their device as a result of an escalating business battle between Amazon and Google. Google has said that starting Jan. 1, it will block people using Amazon’s digital media player from directly accessing and viewing YouTube videos. Fire TV users attempting […]

An initiative by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Google’s YouTube to fight the spread of terrorist content online appears to be gaining momentum. A database that the four organizations established last December to share information with each other and with other technology platforms now contains more than 40,000 “hashes” that uniquely identify videos and images containing […]

Google has expanded enforcement of its unwanted software policy on Android devices, as part of what it says is an effort to protect users from deceptive and overly intrusive apps. Starting in 60 days Google’s Safe Browsing tool will warn mobile users when they use any application that collects personal data without the user’s consent. […]

Google this week downplayed a report that it has quietly been collecting location data from Android devices even when users have disabled location services or haven’t even inserted a SIM card into their phones. In a report Nov. 21, the Quartz online site contended that since at least the beginning of this year, newer Android […]

Google has rolled out an enterprise edition of Dialogflow, an application programming interface that developers can use to build support for voice recognition and conversational capabilities in their applications. The API, available in beta form currently, has several use cases in enterprises, including in areas such as customer service and support, e-commerce, enterprise productivity and […]

Google will soon start adding labels next to stories in Google News to help users more easily identify content from credible sources. The labels, or Trust Indicators, are being developed under the aegis of a broader effort called the Trust Project designed to give readers more context on online articles so they can distinguish legitimate […]

Google has added a new salary information feature in its recently launched job search tool in Google Search. People searching for jobs across the U.S. using Google Search will now get estimated salary information right alongside the job posting in which they are interested. In cases where an employer might provide actual salary information, Google […]

Organizations running SAP workloads on Google’s public cloud platform now have a way of knowing when a Google employee might access the computer systems hosting their data for various purposes. The company this week announced a preview of Access Transparency, a new feature on Google’s cloud platform that gives enterprises visibility into operational access by […]

Nearly five years after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission controversially decided to close an antitrust investigation of Google, the company is facing another similar inquiry, but this time from a state, rather than a federal entity. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley Nov. 13 announced his office has launched a formal investigation into Google’s business practices […]

Data breaches that expose usernames and passwords—like the one at Yahoo, which leaked hundreds of millions of credentials—tend to generate a lot of attention and concern. In reality though a vast majority of account takeovers result from someone obtaining your credentials via a phishing attack rather than from a dump of passwords that might have […]

Democratic Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, Wednesday led a chorus of concerned voices in calling for curbs on what they described as the outsize influence of Google, Facebook and Twitter on information on the internet. At an event organized by the Open Markets Institute, Sen. Franken expressed alarm at the power these three companies have […]