Jaikumar Vijayan

Canada’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling requiring Google to remove search results worldwide pointing to websites being operated by a technology company accused of pirating a rival’s intellectual property. The ruling is sure to come as a disappointment to rights groups who have previously noted that such a decision would essentially mean […]

The European Commission Tuesday slapped Google with a record $2.7 billion fine for abusing its search engine dominance to promote its own comparison-shopping site over that of rivals. The Commission has given Google 90 days to change the manner in which it displays links to rival sites in search engine results or face additional penalty […]

Google has added a couple of security updates to the WebView feature in Android for displaying web content inside a mobile application. The updates are designed to better protect mobile applications from browser-borne threats and will become available in the WebView that is integrated with Android O, the next version of the mobile operating system. […]

Google general counsel Kent Walker this week called for fundamental changes to statutes governing law enforcement requests to customer data stored by Internet companies like itself. In a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.—an excerpt of which was posted on the company’s The Keyword blog—Walker described current laws governing digital evidence gathering on […]

Customers of the Google Cloud Platform that want extra assurance about the security and integrity of their critical business data can now get software giant SAP to act as a custodian for them. Google and SAP announced a partnership earlier this year aimed at ensuring that SAP’s wide portfolio of enterprise software technologies run optimally […]

Employment seekers now have one more option to search for jobs that match their interests, requirements and qualifications. Starting this week, people can use Google search on desktop or mobile devices to look for and find jobs posted across the web, social media and numerous job sites, including CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Monster, Glassdoor and Facebook. By […]

Google’s general counsel Kent Walker on Sunday outlined four measures the company is taking to identify, remove and prevent terror-related video and content from its online properties. As a first measure, the company will devote more engineering resources and video analytics technology to remove and prevent extremist content from its services. As part of the […]

Google has made more of its extensive research around machine learning and computer vision available to the open source community. The company this week publicly released an API that developers and researchers can use to explore a Google computer vision system for automatically detecting and correctly identifying multiple objects in a single image. Google has […]

Amazon Web Services has made it easier for customers of its DynamoDB cloud database service to manage capacity requirements for their applications. The company this week introduced a new Auto Scaling for DynamoDB capability that is designed to automate capacity management of database tables and secondary indexes. Administrators can now simply specify the upper and […]

SAP this week announced a completely redesigned version of its SAP SuccessFactors Mobile application for iOS devices. The updated app will become available on the Apple App Store in the next few weeks and comes with several features that the company said would make it easier for employees and managers to access and use human […]

Websites have used CAPTCHA’s for years now to protect website registrations, application logins, blog comments, online polls and other features from being accessed and spammed by automated bot programs. Over the years, the programs have employed a variety of ways to distinguish humans from bots including using distorted text, street names, street numbers and other […]

With Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo core businesses set to close June 13, the focus now is on how effectively the telecommunications giant will leverage its purchase to accelerate revenues in the digital advertising space. Yahoo shareholders this week formally approved the previously announced sale to Verizon for  $4.48 billion. The figure is $350 million less […]