Jaikumar Vijayan

People who subscribe to Google’s upcoming wireless service may be able to use their phones without additional cost when traveling overseas, if reports over the weekend of the company’s plans are accurate. London’s The Telegraph on Saturday reported that Google is in talks with Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong King based owner of cellular service provider […]

A federal judge in California has refused to dismiss a putative class action lawsuit filed against Google that accuses the company of having shared private data belonging to Google Wallet customers with third parties. In an 18-page ruling earlier this week, Judge Beth Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California […]

Google’s antitrust problems in Europe may be heating up again. The Competition Office at the European Commission, which oversees industry trade practices, is apparently getting ready to file formal antitrust charges against the Internet giant, claiming that Google is abusing its dominant market position to stifle competition. It has asked multiple companies that have filed […]

Google has apparently recently started putting an expiration date on mobile-focused research projects in response to concerns that the company is spending too much money on R&D efforts with little to show in return. Google will give its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group more funding and a new building to continue working on research […]

Recent news that U.S. Federal Trade Commission staff recommended that the regulatory agency sue Google two years ago for antitrust violations has dredged up legal worries that the company thought were put to rest. While Google isn’t facing an active antitrust investigation by U.S. authorities, EU regulators haven’t completed their own probe of the company’s […]

Google has come out swinging against The Wall Street Journal over recent articles suggesting the company had a cozy relationship with the White House that helped it avoid a major Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust lawsuit two years ago. In a blog post, Google Senior Vice President of Communications and Policy Rachel Whetstone used a […]

In the latest example of just how varied its interests have become, Google has entered into a collaborative agreement with Johnson & Johnson to develop surgical robots and improve information delivery to surgeons during operations. Under the agreement, announced March 27, Google’s Life Sciences Team will work with Ethicon, a medical device subsidiary of Johnson […]

Google has made it easier for business customers to deploy popular software packages on its Google Compute Engine cloud service. The company Thursday announced Cloud Launcher, a library of more than 120 open-source packages, each of which can be deployed on Google’s Cloud Platform with just a few clicks. The ready-to-launch packages reduce the need […]

Google’s continuing efforts to broaden its revenue streams appear to be taking the company into the bill payment services space. Google reportedly is planning to launch a new service that will let users receive and pay bills directly from inside their Gmail inboxes. The service, tentatively dubbed Pony Express, is scheduled for launch in the […]

Google has appointed Morgan Stanley’s Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat as its new CFO. Porat will start at Google on May 26 and will report to Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page, the company announced Tuesday. She will replace Google’s current CFO Patrick Pichette, who announced his plans to step down from the role earlier […]

An Egyptian networking and security company in Cairo accidentally issued unauthorized digital certificates for several Google Web domains earlier this month, temporarily putting the domains at risk of being spoofed. Google detected the unauthorized certificates on March 20 and has since blocked the bogus certificates to eliminate the risk, Google security engineer Adam Langley said […]

Developers using Google Cloud Dataflow to write pipelines that combine batch and stream processing tasks now have the option of running their programs on the new Apache Flink distributed processing engine. Data Artisans, the Berlin, Germany-based maker of Flink has released a Cloud Dataflow runner for Flink that allows any Dataflow program to execute on […]