Jaikumar Vijayan

Internet users worried about Google publicly sharing their personal information now have a way of controlling what others can see of that information. The company has quietly rolled out a new About Me tool in which individuals can get a consolidated view of the personal data that Google has on them such as their birthday, […]

Using a mobile application in an area where Internet connectivity is spotty or doesn’t exist at all can be a frustrating experience, especially if you are using the app to explore a new place or get directions to a specific location. Google today announced a new offline capability for Google Maps that it says helps […]

Google has decided to release to the open-source community the machine learning system at the core of many of its services, including Google Translate, Smart Reply in Inbox and image search in Google Photos. Google’s second-generation machine learning technology, dubbed TensorFlow, is designed to run on everything from a single smartphone to thousands of data […]

Google is reportedly seeking to design its own smartphone chips in a bid to gain more control over what it sees as a rapidly fragmenting Android ecosystem. Earlier this year, Google spoke with some chip manufacturers apparently to gauge their interest in developing chips based on Google’s designs, The Information reported Nov. 5. Google is […]

Google this week found itself in the familiar position of defending itself in court against charges that it abused its dominant position in the Internet search engine market to the detriment of rivals. This time, the accusation is from Streetmap EU Limited, a British company that claims its online mapping service was decimated as a […]

A new feature in Google’s Inbox by Gmail will let users reply to emails faster by simply selecting a response from choices served up to them by the app based on the contents of each email message. The new Smart Reply feature, announced at the Web Summit event in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, will become available […]

Google has apparently ditched plans to launch a retail store in New York after reportedly spending some $6 million getting a facility ready for that purpose. The space located in Manhattan’s trendy SoHo district was to have been Google’s first ever brick-and-mortar store and would have served as a flagship outlet for the company’s Chromebooks, […]

Google on Monday emphatically reiterated its commitment to its Chrome PC operating system in an attempt to squelch persistent rumors that the company plans to fold the OS into Android. In a blog post, Hiroshi Lockheimer, senior vice president of Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast conceded that Google has been working on ways to meld […]

Google has added a new option in Android for Work that the company said will make it easier for enterprises to set up and manage corporate-issued mobile devices running the new Android 6.0 Marshmallow release. The new device set-up option is available via the Admin console in Android for Work. The option prompts employees, who […]

Google has launched a new Website to publicly share some of the internal HR practices that have made the company one of the best places to work for in the United States the last few years. The site, dubbed re:Work, will serve as what Google describes as a curated platform for articles highlighting best practices […]