Michelle Maisto

The European Commission is gearing up to levy formal anti-competitive charges against Google, the Wall Street Journal reported July 8. The expectations follow from regulators having reached out to rival technology companies, according to the report, asking for permission to disclose to Google confidential information that they shared with the European Union (EU) regarding the […]

Google acquired Anvato, the maker of a software platform that fully automates the encoding, editing, publishing and distribution of video content across multiple platforms. Google announced the purchase, sans financial details, in a July 7 blog post, saying that Anvato will join the Google Cloud Platform team. Anvato brings with it an impressive roster of […]

The world of work is changing. But attracting and retaining top talent still depends on some pretty age-old, common-sense ideas: give people a pleasant place to work, the best tools for the job and a realistic amount of time to accomplish what they need to. It sounds simple enough, but plenty of companies have work […]

Google DeepMind is engaged in a medical research partnership with England’s Moorfields Eye Hospital, in an effort to more quickly and effectively treat eye conditions and help more people avoid preventable diseases. Moorfields is the oldest eye hospital in the world, fielding 600,000 patient visits a year, which it says is more than twice that […]

Google has a long memory, storing data that oftentimes users aren’t aware is being collected. In a step toward greater transparency and security, Google has introduced a new tool called My Activity, which gives its users the ability to better understand and control the information it stores on them across all of its products and […]

It’s news to no one that work today looks a lot different than it used to, from how days are structured to how long people stay—and expect to stay—at a company. The motivating forces behind those ongoing changes were the focus of a survey of 800 employers, developed by the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work […]

White hat hacker Tavis Ormandy tore into Symantec’s security solutions June 28 on the Google Project Zero blog, citing major vulnerabilities in its products designed and sold to keep users safe. “These vulnerabilities are as bad as it gets,” wrote Ormandy. He described scenarios in which users don’t even need to be duped into opening […]

Google appears to be working on an Internet speed testing tool that will pop up directly in search results when a person types “check internet speed”—and likely also similar phrases—into the search engine. Pete Meyers, with Moz.com, noticed Google testing the concept and posted a screen grab to Twitter June 27, the Verge first reported. […]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is among the latest members of an unhappy club: public figures who have been hacked by OurMine, a group of hackers who profess to be doing the world a favor by making clear how vulnerable most of us are online. They hack into accounts and leave public messages, as well as […]

YouTube and Facebook have begun using automated processes to block and quickly remove terrorist propaganda videos, Reuters reported June 25, citing two people familiar with the situation. Until now, human editors have reviewed flagged content and removed it as they deemed necessary; the automated process can react far more quickly and effectively. The companies aren’t […]