Jaikumar Vijayan

Data breaches that expose usernames and passwords—like the one at Yahoo, which leaked hundreds of millions of credentials—tend to generate a lot of attention and concern. In reality though a vast majority of account takeovers result from someone obtaining your credentials via a phishing attack rather than from a dump of passwords that might have […]

Democratic Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, Wednesday led a chorus of concerned voices in calling for curbs on what they described as the outsize influence of Google, Facebook and Twitter on information on the internet. At an event organized by the Open Markets Institute, Sen. Franken expressed alarm at the power these three companies have […]

Google has added a new feature in its Firebase mobile app development platform that gives developers a way to test different versions of their application’s user interface and functions with selected users to determine the ones that work best. The new feature builds on the relatively simple app testing capability that has been available with […]

Google will integrate its G Suite office productivity software tools and Google Analytics 360 technology with Saleforce’s core Customer Relationship Management platform under an expanded agreement between the two companies. The integration will allow organizations to use Google’s Gmail, Sheets, Drive and other G Suite tools to view and interact with CRM data from across […]

As much as Google has tried to prevent malware from being uploaded to its official Play mobile application store, the company has kept tripping up—with almost alarming regularity in recent months. The latest incident involves a fake version of the WhatsApp instant messenger for Android that was downloaded at least 1 million times over the […]

A Google executive on Thursday explained away an issue that unexpectedly locked some users out of their Docs accounts on Tuesday as a minor glitch with a security feature that the company addressed almost immediately. But some angry users on the Google Docs Help Forum slammed the company over the incident and expressed concern over […]

Google has released a new version of its Andromeda software defined network (SDN) stack that among other things significantly speeds up network performance for customers of the company’s cloud computing services. Andromeda 2.1 reduces latency between virtual machines on Google’s cloud platform by 40 percent compared to the previous Andromeda 2.0 stack and by a […]

Google on Nov 1 announced general availability of its Dedicated Interconnect option for large enterprises that want a fast, private connection to the company’s cloud services. Starting this week organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia can use the option to more efficiently run workloads spanning their private infrastructure and Google’s cloud services. Google […]

Google on Monday said an internal investigation had found evidence of its online platforms being misused by actors linked to Russian propaganda firm Internet Research Agency during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But the company described the misuse as being limited in nature and something that it is working on stopping altogether in future. “Preventing […]

The European Commission’s decision earlier this year to fine Google $2.8 billion for anti-competitive practices misstates facts about the company’s shopping services and ignores market realties, Google has claimed in its appeal against the decision. Google filed the appeal on Sept. 11 after the commission imposed the fine this June.  The EC held that Google […]