Jaikumar Vijayan

Businesses using Google’s Analytics 360 Suite now have a way to create market surveys, acquire an appropriate audience sample and generate results more quickly and easily than if they farmed out the task to an external research firm. That’s according to Google, which on Oct. 19 announced the availability of Google Surveys 360 for enterprise […]

Starting this week, software developers will be able to use Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging technology to send push notifications from their applications and services to Firefox, Opera and other browsers in addition to Chrome. That’s courtesy of new web support for FCM in the form of a JavaScript library that Google announced this week. The […]

Google and cloud storage company Rackspace have released draft specifications for Zaius, a new data center server based on IBM’s POWER9 (P9) microprocessor (pictured) and the Open Compute Project’s (OCP) Open Server specifications. The Zaius P9 Server specification is the outcome of a partnership between the two companies announced earlier this year at the Open […]

With a few weeks left until the general elections, Google has added new features in Search that make it easier for voters to find out where to vote and who will be on the ballot when they get to the polls. By searching for “who’s on my ballot” and entering their addresses, U.S. voters will […]

As one of the largest Internet companies, Google receives more requests for user data from governments and law enforcement agencies around the world than perhaps any other service provider. And, as it has since the company first began releasing details on such requests, government demands for user data have kept increasing steadily. Google’s latest transparency […]

Google has acquired marketing firm FameBit in a move the company says will make it easier for brands to work with YouTube creators in pitching products through sponsorships and paid promotions. The acquisition will increase the number of branded content opportunities that are available on YouTube in the form of product placements, sponsorships and promotions. […]

Google has launched a new certification program for IT professionals interested in careers helping companies extract business value from large, diverse data sets. The Google Certified Professional Data Engineer program is targeted at people with experience in areas like programming data pipelines, tuning databases, creating reports and performing statistical analysis on corporate data. It is […]

Google this week said that substantial progress has been made with the open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) initiative in the one year since it launched last October. The AMP project is a Google-led effort to enable a faster mobile web. Under the effort, the company is trying to get website owners to implement the AMP […]

Like it often does, Google has released into the open-source community an indoor mapping tool called Cartographer that it has used internally. Cartographer is designed to enable what is known as real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)—or the ability to build a 2D or 3D map while at the same time keeping track of an […]

Google has collaborated with the Healthy Building Network (HBN) to release a web application designed to help organizations make better decisions about the materials they use in building construction projects. The app, called Portico, will give architects, contractors and manufactures scientific information on the human and environmental impacts of their building material choices. It would […]

The Google Assistant, formally released this week amid a slew of hardware offerings, is central to Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s effort to align the company with what he sees as an epochal shift from mobile-centric to AI-centric computing. The Assistant is a voice-activated digital assistant similar to Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri. It […]

Google is expected to release Google Home, its much-hyped rival to the Amazon Echo, along with several other hardware products, at an event in San Francisco Oct. 4. Google Home integrates Assistant, a virtual assistant technology released earlier this year that is similar to Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa in function. Assistant is designed to […]