Jaikumar Vijayan

Google will add as many as 12 new data centers around the world through the end of 2017 as part of a major planned expansion of its cloud computing capabilities. Two of the new data centers—one in Oregon and the other in Tokyo—will open later this year while the others will go online next year. […]

Google has made available for free a tool for quickly spotting similarities and differences in related binary files or software code. The BinDiff tool gives security researchers a way to identify and isolate fixes for vulnerabilities in vendor-supplied patches. It also gives them a way to disassemble and compare malicious software files for differences and […]

Website owners have about six weeks to make sure their sites are optimized for viewing on mobile devices if they want to maintain their ranking in Google’s search results. Starting in May, Google will give even higher ranking in search results than it currently does to Web pages where text is easily readable on mobile […]

As it’s already done with other areas of its massive datacenter infrastructure, Google this week gave enterprises a peek at Maglev, the software-defined network load balancer the company has been using since 2008 to handle traffic to Google services. Maglev, like most of Google’s networking systems, was built internally. But unlike Jupiter, the custom network […]

Google has released a set of data and marketing analytic tools that it says will give enterprise marketing teams better visibility of customer behavior and Web sales teams the ability to craft more effective marketing messages and personalized ad campaigns. Google’s Analytics 360 suite combines two existing Google technologies—Google Analytics Premium (GA Premium) and Google […]

Google has added Microsoft Office 365, Facebook at Work, Box, Panorama9, Slack and several other products to the growing list of applications for which it provides single sign-on support. Enterprises using the company’s Identity Platform for Work will now be able to give workers a way to use their existing log-in credentials to authenticate themselves […]

In a legal setback for Google, a court in Moscow has rejected the company’s appeal of an earlier ruling by Russia’s anti-monopoly regulator that it had broken the country’s fair competition laws. The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) had last September charged Google with abusing its market dominance to force Android handset […]

As a company that derives a huge portion of its revenue from online ads, Google has a lot at stake in ensuring that people are able to access information and applications content on their mobile devices as easily as possible. Several of the company’s recent moves, such as its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) effort and […]

In a somewhat unexpected move, Google this week gave developers what it described as a “really early” look at the next version of its Android mobile operating systems. Codenamed Android N, the operating system will offer several updates, including support for a split-screen or multi-window mode, faster responses to incoming messages, bundled message notification, better […]

Several years ago when Facebook found its computing requirements were beginning to outstrip its infrastructure’s ability to keep up, the company launched a project to design a data center that would not only be scalable enough for its needs, but also would be more cost effective and power efficient. The social media company’s success with […]