Jaikumar Vijayan

More enterprises have begun signing up for Google’s cloud services because of the company’s commitment to open source technologies along with its implementations of data analytics and machine learning, CEO Sundar Pichai said at parent Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday. Alphabet Oct. 26 announced better than expected net income of $6.7 billion on revenues of […]

Marketers figuring out how best to optimize their website content and design in order to bring more customers to their site or to drive better sales now have more help from Google. In March this year the company rolled out a tool called Optimize that lets marketers experiment with and test the impact of changes […]

Google and Cisco have agreed to collaborate on offering tools and services to help enterprises develop, deploy and manage workloads in hybrid, public and private cloud environments. The development and deployment tools will among other things allow developers to build applications in the public cloud and deploy it in a private cloud. The tools will […]

Consumers making online purchases with their Android devices now have a new way to pay for them through a special payments account. Pay with Google, a service that Google announced at its I/O event in May, has officially gone live. Starting Oct. 23, people will be able to pay for purchases made on the mobile […]

Google is giving organizations more ways to protect sensitive data such as credit card and Social Security numbers in workloads on its cloud platform. The company Oct. 19 said it has added new data de-identification features to the existing capabilities offered by its cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API. Google’s DLP API, initially released this […]

Google’s penchant for publicly calling out the security failures of other vendors has recently come back to haunt it as two IT industry rivals have sounded the alarm about two of the search giant’s Online services. This week Symantec and Microsoft—companies that Google has previously cited for security vulnerabilities—issued their own disclosures to make about […]

Google this week reported progress on its efforts to flag and remove violent extremist videos from YouTube even as it admitted to making mistakes along the way. In an Oct. 17 update on its YouTube blog, Google said its automated machine-learning tools are getting better at removing video content that violates content policies. The company […]

Users who don’t mind giving up convenience and ease of use for better online security can now take advantage of a new Advanced Protection Program from Google. The program is designed specifically for people who are at elevated risk of having their email and other online accounts broken into or spied upon. Google is targeting […]

Google has added new features in Chrome for Windows that it says will better protect users against from the risks of unwanted and potentially harmful software on their computers. The new features complement the protections that are currently already available via the Chrome Safe Browsing service that identifies and alerts users when they navigate to […]

Google and online education program provider Udacity have launched a new scholarship initiative for aspiring Web and Android application developers. The two companies will offer 50,000 scholarships to people wishing to pursue a career in either of these two fields. The scholarships will be available to U.S. residents age 18 or older at all skill […]