Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has announced expanded safeguards for advertisers on YouTube and the Google Display Network days after a senior executive promised changes in reaction to an outcry from advertisers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over misplaced ads. The new safeguards are focused on the company’s ad policies, its enforcement of the policies and new ways […]

Google last year recorded a 32 percent increase over 2015 in the number of websites that its search engine flagged as being hacked. More than six in 10 of the webmasters of such sites, however, never received a notification from Google about their properties being infected because their sites had not been registered with Search […]

Google this week said it has initiated a thorough review of its ad policies amid a firestorm of criticism in the United Kingdom for allowing ads from the government and major companies to appear next to inappropriate content on YouTube and other Google properties. In a blog post March 17, Ronan Harris, managing director of […]

A federal judge in California this week declined to approve a proposed Google settlement in a class-action lawsuit involving claims the company violated California privacy statutes with its Gmail scanning activities. In a six-page order, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh described the language in Google’s settlement as confusing and not properly disclosing how Google intercepts, […]

Google has weeded out a particularly pernicious family of potentially harmful apps from its Android Play store and ad ecosystem. The rogue app family that Google has dubbed Chamois was responsible for generating a large volume of invalid ad traffic, illegal app promotion and installation activity and for downloading and executing plugins on end user […]

Google has announced general availability of a Quick Access feature in Google Drive that up to now has only been available to customers of its G Suite apps on Android. The feature uses machine-learning tools to predict the files that a user is likely going to be looking for in Drive and presents it before […]

Google has substantially expanded the number of development environments supported by its Google App Engine cloud-computing platform. Organizations can use the platform to develop and host web applications, mobile back ends and APIs using Node.js, Java 8, Ruby, Go 1.8 and Python 2.7 or 3.5. Beta support is available also for .NET Core and PHP 7.1 Developers […]

Google has made no secret of its plans to leverage data science and machine learning approaches to make its products and cloud services smarter and more intuitive to use. This week, the company expanded its presence in the emerging fields through the acquisition of Kaggle, a platform used by an estimated 800,000 data scientists and […]

Google is using its Next ’17 conference in San Francisco this week to showcase the enterprise readiness of its cloud service offerings. As part of the effort, the company this week announced that its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technology has been officially certified to run SAP HANA database and other mission critical SAP applications. The […]

Google this week announced general availability of a development tool that it says will allow organizations to more easily build container images regardless of the deployment environment. The company’s new Google Cloud Container Builder lets developers build software programs in any language and to pack the builds—or early versions of the programs—into Docker containers on […]

The government in Turkey has become the latest to open an investigation into Google’s business practices. The Turkish Competition Authority on Monday said it will examine whether Google’s application bundling requirements for Android handset makers are consistent with the country’s fair competition rules. The decision to open the investigation follows a reassessment of a complaint […]

An ongoing Google investigation into the use of deep-learning techniques in the field of digital pathology shows early promise the company said this week. Researchers from Google’s machine learning group are developing algorithms for the automated detection of breast cancer metastases from whole slide images of biological tissue samples. Using images supplied by the Radboud […]