High-interest consumer loans — often known as payday advances — are now banned from having apps on the Google Play store, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sunday (Oct. 13). Apple doesn’t have a similar ban, but the company told the WSJ that it...
Google is stepping up its vacation rental business with enhanced listings that will include reviews, photos and more, and appearing before competitors on search, Skift reported on Saturday (Oct. 5). Nicola Simionato, director of business development for Travel at Google, revealed the new enterprise at...
Google has announced the launch of Action Blocks, a new tool that allows people with cognitive disabilities build Google Assistant commands. “Think about the last time you did something seemingly simple on your phone, like booking a rideshare. To do this, you had to unlock...
Olo has announced that it is integrating its rails platform with Google so that customers can order directly from restaurant brands across Google Search, Maps and Google Assistant. The integration allows Olo’s network of more than 70,000 restaurant brand locations to be enabled on Google’s...
If you really want to understand human nature — really gain a deep sense about how people operate, and where they want to go — you could do worse than to study maps. They can show how people thought about the world, and how they pushed...
Google’s plan to use a new internet protocol has caught the attention of Congressional antitrust investigators. In a letter sent to the tech giant on September 13th, investigators for the House Judiciary Committee requested information about Google’s “decision regarding whether to adopt or promote the...
To let users enjoy apps and games without ads or in-app purchases, Google debuted the Google Play Pass. The new subscription service provides them with access to over 350 games and apps that are “completely unlocked,” the company said in a blog post. The offering...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said politicians should take a measured approach when thinking about regulating artificial intelligence (AI), and that many of the rules already in place would work for legislating the new technology. The Financial Times reported Pichai saying that what was needed was...
Google for India recently launched new features and updates to several products, including enhancements to Google Assistant, Pay, Lens and Search, Android Central reported on Thursday (Sept. 19). India is an important market for Google, with Android users making up of 98 percent of smartphone...
