Jaikumar Vijayan

Google is offering 2GB of free storage to users who review and manage their Google Account security settings over the next few days. The company announced the offer Tuesday, on Safer Internet Day, as part of an effort to get users to pay more attention to online security. “We have many protections in place to […]

A Google-appointed group of advisors said the company has little reason to implement the European Union’s right to be forgotten mandate on a global basis. In a 44-page document released Feb. 6, the eight-member panel of academicians, rights advocates and legal experts held that Google could meet the objectives of the mandate by limiting its […]

Google’s search engine results could soon include real-time tweets from Twitter under an agreement that the two companies confirmed on Feb. 5. A Google spokeswoman late Thursday confirmed the partnership between the two companies in an email to eWEEK in which she said she did not have any additional details to share at the moment. […]

Google has quietly started shipping Android 5.1 Lollipop, the latest version of its mobile operating system, on Android One smartphones in Indonesia. The company has not officially announced the new Android version yet. So not many details are available on the changes that Google has introduced with it. But the Android One home page for […]

A close partnership between Google and ridesharing service Uber may be coming apart at the seams, with both companies apparently launching ventures that could put them in direct competition with each other. Google, a major investor in Uber, is reportedly planning to launch a ridesharing service of its own while the latter has embarked on […]

Buoyed by the success of its existing bug-bounty program, Google has launched an initiative to reward researchers interested in finding security vulnerabilities in its products. Google’s new Vulnerability Research Grants initiative will offer up-front cash awards of up to $ 3,133.70 to researchers interested in taking a crack at specific Google products and services. Unlike […]

Google’s latest earnings report, released on Jan. 29, is yet another reminder of just how heavily dependent the company remains on its core search-related advertising business despite all its recent moves into new markets. For the final quarter of 2014, Google reported net income of $4.76 billion on revenue of $18.1 billion, compared with a […]

Enterprises using VMware’s vCloud Air hosted service will soon have access to four Google cloud services as well under their existing service contracts and using their existing network interconnects. The two companies on Jan. 29 revealed a partnership under which Google will make its BigQuery analytics, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Datastore and Google Cloud […]

An attorney for Google on Wednesday defended the company’s apparent delay in informing three WikiLeaks members about giving the government access to their email accounts nearly three years ago in response to secret court orders. In an interview with The Washington Post, Google attorney Albert Gidari claimed the company was unable to notify the three […]

Spurred by what it described as overwhelming consumer enthusiasm, Google on Jan. 27 said it would soon begin rolling out its Google Fiber gigabit Internet service in 18 cities across four major metro areas in the country. The company is currently working with city planners in the Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; Nashville; and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. metro […]