Google Reportedly Was In Talks To Acquire GitHub, But Lost To Microsoft
Earlier this month, Microsoft acquired GitHub for around $7.5 billion, a deal that sent waves throughout the global developer community who collaborated on the open source code repository. However, it now...
Google Maps Revamp With New Explore, ‘For You’ Tab Now Rolling Out
Ever since Google showed off a revamped Google Maps UI at I/O 2018 last month, we’ve been waiting for the rollout of this hotly anticipated update. It had been under testing for the past few...
Google Announces Code to Learn Contest for Budding Coders in India
Google recently announced an initiative for Indian students called ‘Summer Camp With Google’, as part of which the company invited 100 students to its offices in India to give them a chance of...
Google’s Files Go App Now Offers 4x Data Transfer Speed, Enhanced Security
Google’s Files Go is an efficient storage management app which provides storage clearance tools and also facilitates offline file sharing. Google has now released a new update which further improves the...
Google Earth Now Lets You Measure Distance And Calculate Area
Google Earth, a geo-browser which employs satellite imagery to render a 3-dimensional representation of our planet, has received a new feature which allows users to measure the distance between two points on...
Gboard app to get a makeover, will get battery saver mode and OCR tool
Google's immensely popular Gboard keyboard application is likely to get a battery saver mode soon, as the company tests the latest Gboard beta version, the media reported. The version 7.3 reveals development on a number of...
Google rolls out free public WiFi at 400 railway stations
Tech giant Google today said it has rolled out free public WiFi at 400 Indian railway stations in collaboration with RailTel. Launched as a key initiative under Digital India programme, the service was kicked off from Mumbai Central station...
Google Lens Is Now A Standalone App On The Play Store
Google Lens is now available as a standalone app on the Play Store, which makes it widely available for most Android smartphones. Google Lens, which was once exclusive to Google’s Pixel...
Google’s in-house incubator made a Waze-like app for the New York City subway
Have you ever used New York City’s decrepit subway system and marveled that its speeds that are slower now than they were in the 1950s? Or how a commute of a few...