Google Android have developed a new system called Bouncer, designed to rid the Android Market of malicious apps. The company, which has been criticised for its open ended approach to verifying apps, will now scan every app to see if it’s malware while allowing users to combat them on their own devices…
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Google have been ordered by a French commercial court to pay €500,000 to a French mapping company after it was found guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application…
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Twitter has been getting a huge amount of coverage lately over its decision to censor tweets based on the country that the tweeter is in, but Google also quietly unveiled a similar policy that has gone largely unnoticed until recent days…
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After a relatively slow uptake among publishers, Google are preparing a overhaul of their online content OnePass to mark its first year in existence. The upgrades are not yet confirmed but they will be implemented over the next few weeks to help increase the uptake among publishers…
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Google has been pushing their street view service commercially in recent months with the introduction of interior street view and indoor photos for businesses. The latter was expanded into its own service called Business Photos allowing users to see the interior of their store or building through Street View. Now they’ve introduced…
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Google are always making improvements to their maps service, which is quite easily one of their most popular features to date, having been responsible for a number of spin-off features. Now after adding 3D maps, traffic reports and indoor street view, Google have now revealed a new crisis response service called ‘Google Public Alerts’…
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Privacy policies and terms of service are things that most of us don’t pay much attention to when we sign up for a service on the web, given the clunky legal jargon and huge length of such documents, but Google want to draw our attention to changes to their Privacy Policy…
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The past few weeks have been strange for Google and their social media site. Google+ has been making so many changes in such short proximity of each other that it almost reeks of desperation, as if it’s trying to stay in the public consciousness by announcing more additions to be eventually picked up by tech sites and blogs…
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Blake Ross, who is currently director of product at Facebook has just launched a new project in collaboration with Tom Occhino (developer at Facebook) and Marshall Roch to show Google up by demonstrating what its social search feature is really capable of. Google is currently defending its position to prioritise Google+ results in social search, as they claim they are [...]
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Google got a fair bit of flak last week for missing their revenue targets and their share price dropping 10% but the following chart shows just how much money the internet giant is making. With close to $40 billion in revenues and 97% of that coming through advertising things like fairly good from this angle…
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If you’re travelling abroad and checking into your hotel, the first thing you will want to know is how far away the city’s landmarks are from your base of operations. The question of whether it’d be possible to walk to a location, or to get public transport is something that will cross the mind at one point or another so Google have introduced a new feature…
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While the internet is abuzz with news of Facebook’s new ‘actions’ that rolled out today, Google+ have also launched some new features to their social networking offering. Google+ have been actively enhancing their product since the new year…
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