Jaikumar Vijayan

Mobile traffic app vender PhantomAlert filed suit against Google subsidiary Waze for allegedly stealing some the company’s data and using the information in its own product. In a copyright infringement lawsuit filed in a California federal court this week, PhantomAlert accused Waze of copying PhantomAlert’s Points of Interest database in its entirety and incorporating the […]

India has joined the growing list of countries that apparently have a gripe against Google’s business practices. The Competition Commission of India (CCI), the country’s antitrust authority, has sent Google a report charging the company with abusing its dominant market position to rank its own services ahead of those from others in search results. An […]

A new front just opened up in Google’s broadening battle against those who see it as engaged in anti-competitive practices in Europe. European law firm Hausfeld & Co. LLP and public affairs consultancy Avisa Partners joined forces to launch a Website to help companies sue Google for anti-competitive behavior in the European Union. The site […]

Google has tweaked its weather forecasts and public alerts in Google Search to help people track storms and dangerous weather during this year’s hurricane season. People searching for information on storms and tornados in their particular area via Google will now get detailed alerts and safety recommendations depending on the severity of the storm and […]

Building on its recent moves in the life sciences market, Google Monday announced a partnership with French pharmaceutical company Sanofi on diabetes management-related technologies. The two companies will collaborate on finding new ways to treat and manage type 1 and type 2 diabetes, with Sanofi pairing its expertise in diabetes treatment and devices with Google’s […]

Google on Thursday predictably denied European Union charges that it was abusing its dominant position in the Internet search market to stifle rivals. Responding to a formal statement of objections (SO) filed against the company by European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager in April, Google said that its services had increased choice for European consumers […]

Google’s Container Engine service for managing Docker containers on its cloud platform has become generally available, meaning it is now fully backed by the company’s service-level agreements and other policies. Starting today, businesses seeking to run Docker containers on Google will be able to fully manage and orchestrate their container cluster using Container Engine. Google […]

Google has revamped its cloud-hosted BigQuery analytics service with features that the company says makes it more powerful and easy to use. BigQuery lets enterprise run batch and real-time data analytics applications against really massive data sets. Google itself describes it as a “No-Ops analytics database” that is designed to scale in seconds, requires little […]

Google’s Life Sciences team, known for its work on smart contact lenses for people with diabetes, will be spun off into an independent Alphabet company. Andy Conrad, currently the head of the Life Sciences team, will become the CEO of the new venture. “While the reporting structure will be different, their goal remains the same,” […]

More help is on the way for enterprises seeking to manage the proliferating use of Android-based mobile devices in the workplace. A slew of carriers, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint, this week announced support for Google’s recently launched Android for Work program. Under the effort, the carriers will deliver tools and capabilities that […]