Jaikumar Vijayan

As expected, European officials on Wednesday slapped Google with new anti-competition charges related to its Android operating system, broadening the company’s legal battles there in the process. In a Statement of Objections, the European Commission formally charged Google with breaching European Union antitrust rules by using its market dominance to impose unfair restrictions on Android […]

Google’s antitrust woes in Europe deepened this week with News Corp, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, accusing Google of using its dominance to unfair advantage in the search engine space. Meanwhile, in a separate development, Google won a welcome reprieve in Canada where the country’s Competition Bureau this week cleared the company […]

Google and Autodesk have teamed up to offer the latter’s Maya 3D modeling and animation software as a hosted cloud rendering service. The new Autodesk Maya for Cloud Platform ZYNC Render will give studios and artists a way to tap the power of Google’s cloud infrastructure to significantly boost rendering performance, the companies said in […]

Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s Commissioner for Competition, is reportedly set to broaden her ongoing investigation of Google’s alleged anti-competitive behavior in the EU. Politico on Friday cited three investigators involved in the case as saying that Vestager’s office is readying charges against Google over the company’s practices with regard to its Android mobile operating […]

Five months after Google released its powerful TensorFlow machine learning technology to the open-source community, the company has made available for free a new, more versatile version of the software for anyone to use. The numerous developers, engineers, hobbyists and others that have been using and testing TensorFlow over the past few months now have […]

Google officials said its engineering and operations teams are moving quickly to deal with growing ad fraud activity on its networks that is tied to so-called clickjacking attacks. Clickjacking refers to the practice in which threat actors modify the appearance of a Web page, or part of a Web page, to trick users into clicking […]

A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has thrown out a district court order that had prevented Mississippi Attorney General James Hood from taking legal action against Google for not doing enough to weed out illegal content in search results. The move clears the way for Hood to pursue […]

For more than five years Google has been offering its Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators service that, like its counterpart for individual users, warns administrators about potentially unsafe URLs on their networks. The service is designed to give administrators notice about malicious content on their networks so they have an opportunity to clean it […]

About three years ago in the summer of 2013, Google moved its entire App Engine footprint for the U.S. from one region in the country to another location. It was an effort that involved an initial transfer of several petabytes worth of stored data between data centers and the online replication of massive data volumes […]

Google rolled out a new cross-platform API for enabling faster access to the company’s Cloud Datastore NoSQL database from outside Google’s App Engine. The new Cloud Datastore API, currently available as a beta release for Google’s cloud customers, is designed to improve the performance and reliability of the database for those accessing it from Google’s […]