The Mississippi attorney general has urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate allegations by Yelp against Google. According to news from Bloomberg Technology, Mississippi’s Democratic attorney general, Jim Hood, sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in late October, urging the agency...
Google has announced an array of new Assistant features for app developers, including new push notifications, daily updates and additional language support. According to the news release, the added features are designed “to make it easier for users to find, interact and re-engage with your...
Google announced that it will be shutting off developer access to its QPX Express API service, which automates data for airfare search engines. According to a news report from The Verge, the move could affect third-party travel sites, such as Orbitz and Expedia. It’s also...
Google’s cheese placement is stirring up a bit of controversy, according to news from CNN. Apparently, the tech firm’s version of a burger emoji displays the cheese slice placed below the meat patty, rather than on top. Writer and media analyst Thomas Baekdal called attention to...
Just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season, Google is launching new shopping features and reporting capabilities for local merchants. According to news from Search Engine Land, retailers with brick-and-mortar locations will have more ways to drive and measure store visits from Google properties....
If the promise of mobile payments is speed and convenience, delivering on the promise – and turning it into practice – is a bit tougher. Small screen, small window of time to get the transaction done. Session timeouts? You’ve had ‘em, no doubt, perhaps fumbling through...
Google is among those exposed by two massive Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities revealed on Monday. The search engine giant has already rolled out patches. In better news, the company has teamed up with Target to power voice shopping and delivery via Google Express, and it’s finally...
The big news from Google this week was obviously the hardware event on Oct. 4, which you have likely read all about (but we’ll recap it below in case you missed it). But new smartphones and home speakers aren’t the only hardware the tech giant...
Google has relaxed its subscription policy, no longer requiring news websites to provide users with three free articles per day or face less prominence in search results. According to a CNBC news report, while Google has argued that its “first click free” policy would lead to...
