If you have an Android phone or tablet, Google will email you soon - if it hasn’t already - to say your device will automatically beam its location anonymously to strangers’ compatible gadgets nearby.

Google tip-toed into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com on Thursday. The search company, which is expected to go public this year, is flexing its power with ...

According to TechCrunch, Google plans to launch a new endeavor that seeks to take Facebook's open platform to a whole new level. Josh Wolf first became interested in the power of the press after ...

Ahead of the (delayed) launch of Google’s Find My Device network, the company is preparing location-based settings for helping find your (and others’) lost phones and other gadgets. About APK Insight: ...

More than one in ten Google users around the world lost the use of some or all of the company's services on Thursday as a result of a major network outage. Blamed by ...

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Networking in the Google Cloud is continuing to move forward, with a series of innovations outlined recently at Google Next. Google execs specifically outlined the hyperscaler's latest efforts to ...

The cloud service provider says it has resolved an error with its networking services that brought down major websites, apps and services as well as some of Google ...

Google Cloud is opening its far-reaching network tentacles to enterprises that are facing increasingly complex connectivity management challenges due to growing networking needs and a wide range of ...

After seeing Facebook pleas and flash mobs, and even cities temporarily renaming themselves "Google," the search engine giant said Wednesday it has chosen Kansas City, Kan., as the first place to get ...

Google has scaled its network capacity from over one petabit per second to beyond six petabits per second mostly thanks to a technique which involves bouncing optical signals off mirrors to redirect ...