Google warns U.S. of possible security risks due to ban Huawei’.
Google is alerting the United States to the risks to national security that may result from the ban on Huawei. That's three people who are briefed on the conversations with the Financial Times. Huawei has been on a blacklist since May, which means that it is not allowed to buy American-made products... Read more
Google adds new pricing options to Compute Engine service
Google is changing the way it sets prices for its Compute Engine service to make things "fairer and more transparent. Compute Engine is the Internet giant's basic Infrastructure-as-a-Service service that allows users to run workloads on its physical hardware.
Google says that it is further expandin... Read more
Google appeals against new European billion-dollar fine
Earlier this year, Google was fined by the European Union for unfair competition with online advertisements. The fine amounts to EUR 1.5 billion, the third antitrust fine so far. Google does not resign itself to this and goes into the counter-attack.
Google has lodged an appeal with the General Cour... Read more
Chrome 75 includes secret reading mode and security updates
Google today makes Chrome 75 available for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac and Windows. The main focus of this version is to add internal APIs and update existing functions. Developers did discover one hidden novelty: read mode.
The new reading mode is hidden in the flags submenu of Chrome. This func... Read more
European privacy advocates file complaints against Google for advertisements
Citizens' rights organisations in nine European countries have complained to the privacy authorities in their country about Google's advertising policy. According to the organisations, the problem revolves around real-time bidding.
Real-time bidding is a server-to-server buying process that uses aut... Read more
Apple launch own login function to compete with Facebook and Google
Apple announced at its developer conference WWDC that it will launch its own login service, which will compete with Twitter, Facebook and Google. The Sign in with Apple feature allows users to use their Apple ID to log into third-party apps and services.
The function was developed with security in ... Read more
Google makes migration to G Suite easier for Box users
Google makes it easier for Box cloud users to transfer their files to G Suite. The company does this with its own migration service, which it announced earlier this year and made available as a beta.
With G Suite Migrate it is now possible to migrate more easily from Box to Google's service, writes... Read more
Adblockers only allowed for business Chrome users
Google plans to restrict modern adblockers to business Chrome users. The so-called Manifest V3 makes adblockers, such as uBlock Origin, no longer work.
Modern adblockers use Chromes webRequest to block ads before they are downloaded. According to Forbes, Manifest V3 is undergoing a major transformat... Read more
Google makes confidential mode standard for business Gmail users
G Suite users will have access to the new confidential email sending mode from next month. This mode will be enabled by default, unless the administrator decides otherwise.
Google rolls out the confidential mode for sending e-mails via Gmail to G Suite. The feature will be available from June 25th a... Read more
Extensions in Google Chrome and Drive get stricter privacy policy
Google has announced a stricter privacy policy for extensions in Google Chrome and apps that use Google Drive cloud storage. Extensions, for example, can no longer just ask for broad access to data.
According to Google itself, there are now over 180,000 extensions in the Chrome Web Store and almost... Read more