Jaikumar Vijayan

Google’s anti-trust troubles in Europe may be starting anew. The Competition Office at the European Commission, which is responsible for ensuring fair trade practices, is set to formally charge Google on Wednesday with abusing its dominance of Internet search in Europe, the Financial Times reported. The EU’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager will announce plans to […]

Google has taken several incremental steps to boost the responsiveness and security of its enterprise cloud services offering. On Monday, the company said it has added load-balancing technology in a dozen new cities in the U.S and Europe, to help reduce network latency for customers close to those areas. Google’s new points of presence for […]

Google’s efforts to promote broader adoption of its Wallet mobile payment system appear to be gathering momentum. The company earlier this week announced that Dunkin’ Donuts and online food ordering service Seamless have integrated their mobile applications with Google Wallet. The integration allows people using these merchants’ retail transaction applications or using their Websites to […]

Google may be getting ready to launch a new online meeting tool called Google Meeting, or GMeet. Google+ user Florian Kiersch stumbled upon the application earlier this week and posted a couple of screen shots purporting to show the log-in page of the service. According to Kiersch, log-in is currently restricted to Google employees, so […]

Twitter has been discussed as an inviting takeover target for more than five years so reports this week that Google may be looking to buy out the micro-blogging company are not exactly astonishing news. Even so, it had the predictable effect of sending Twitter’s shares up by more than 4 percent Tuesday and raising questions […]

Several privacy groups have slammed Google for its advertising practices with regard to its recently launched YouTube Kids mobile app for smartphones and tablets. In a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) April 7, a coalition of 10 privacy groups accused Google of using the application to deliver marketing messages to children using […]

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 […]