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As more restaurants, bars and businesses close in an attempt to blunt the spread of the coronavirus, Google Search and Maps will inform users. In a blog post on the company’s site, CEO Sundar Pichai outlined the various steps the company is taking to help fight the spread of the...

Just days after encouraging all Washington State employees to work from home, Google is telling all of its North American employees to do the same. According to Business Insider, Google sent out a memo on Tuesday recommending that all of its employees in North America avoid going...

In its efforts to gain ground against AWS and Microsoft, Google has signed a multi-year deal to become Major League Baseball’s cloud provider. Google Cloud continues to be a distant third-place in the U.S. cloud market, behind leader AWS and second-place Microsoft. Despite its...

Some things are too good to last, and it appears Google and Microsoft’s BFF cooperation on the browser front is one of them, as both companies are taking swipes at the other. Microsoft’s current browser, Edge, uses Google’s Chromium rendering engine. Chromium is an open-source...

Despite limiting travel, an employee at Google’s Switzerland offices has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. According to a report by Business Insider (BI), Google informed employees via email that an employee in the Zurich offices had tested positive for the virus. However, the...

Google Cloud is undergoing a reorganization and is eliminating some roles as it works to better compete with its rivals. Google currently sits a distant third among U.S. cloud providers, but CEO Thomas Kurian has made no secret of his goal to become at least the number two...

Google announced in a blog post today that it is taking the next step toward protecting users from insecure downloads. Over the last couple of years, more and more websites are using HTTPS to secure traffic to their websites. One potential attack vector is when downloadable files...

Google Cloud and Sabre announced a 10-year partnership that will see Sabre move to Google Cloud and the two companies work “to build the future of travel,” according to a press release. Sabre is a travel company that was originally created by American Airlines in 1960. In 1996,...

Business Insider is reporting that RBC Capital Markets Managing Director Alex Zukin believes Microsoft could unseat AWS as the dominant cloud player. AWS currently holds a commanding lead in the market, with some 47.8% market share. In spite of that, Amazon’s status as a leading...

Google Cloud scored a big win as German airline Lufthansa has selected the platform to help ease the impacts of flight delays, according to CNBC. Lufthansa plans on migrating its assorted IT systems to Google Cloud, providing much needed uniformity to their processes. This should...