“They are concerned that Android is fragmenting, that it needs to become a more controlled platform,” said Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight. “I think they’ll seek to control it more, more like Apple.” Google is best known for its internet software but has taken steps into hardware in recent years by releasing its...Read More

Google Trends also reported a 680% spike in searches for “Move to Gibraltar” in the London area, as well as significant rises for the terms: “What if the pound collapses?” and “Buy gold.” The price of gold surged in the early hours of the morning, with the precious metal rallying as much as 8.1pc to nearly $1,360 an...Read More

Google cloud boss Diane Greene. Google The first thing to understand about Diane Greene, the woman Google acqui-hired in November to transform its fragmented cloud business, is that she has the mind of an engineer. Cool technology, elegantly designed and built, lights her up. Even her jokes tend to be geek oriented. A lifelong competitive...Read More

When Jyotsna Kaki got a call from Google, she was stunned. She had never applied for a job with the tech giant. “I thought that getting into Google was impossible for me,” said Kaki, 33, who is blind. But it wasn’t, thanks to her brother who passed her resume to a friend at Google. At...Read More

My entire picture library is inside Google Photos, which for a long time made Apple’s Live Photos feature on my iPhone 6S Plus rather useless. Google didn’t support the format until March, so if I wanted to preserve them before then, it required converting each Live Photo to a GIF using a third-party app, saving it...Read More

Google can provide a lucrative career option for EU policy advisors, with the UK hosting the busiest revolving door, according to new research. The US-based Campaign for Accountability has identified at least 16 Googlers joining the taxpayer’s payroll, with 64 advisors taking the more lucrative path the other way by joining Google. Eric Schmidt was...Read More