Google Workspace

All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las…

New Google Vids product helps create a customized video with an AI assist

The new AI meetings and messaging add-on takes notes for you, provides meeting summaries and translates content into 69 languages.

Google looks to monetize AI with two new $10 Workspace add-ons

As companies move to the cloud, keeping data secure is always front of mind. While Google is quick to point out that it has never had an exploit in Google…

Google plans to bring AI-fueled security enhancements to Google Workspace

Google is experimenting with a generative AI feature to create new backgrounds for Google Meet calls. This new test lets people type in a prompt to generate a background for…

Google is experimenting with AI-generated background on Meet

Google Calendar has launched a new feature that lets professionals or freelancers allow their customers to book paid appointments. This could be useful for people such as therapists or teachers…

Google Calendar now allows users to take paid appointments

A month ago, Google rolled out passkey support to consumer Google accounts. Today, it is extending this to business users, with the open beta launch of passkeys for Google Workspace…

Google Workspace and Cloud get support for passkeys

Google, which hosts billions of user accounts, said on Tuesday that it plans to delete accounts that have remained inactive for two years. The decision is part of the internet…

Google to delete accounts inactive for two years in security push

Google and Microsoft are locked in a head-to-head competition to bring as much generative AI to their productivity services as possible. Only days ahead of Microsoft’s “Future of Work” event,…

Google goes all-in on bringing AI to Workspace

Meetings — nobody wants them but everybody has them. So for those times when you’re in a meeting but mostly just surfing the web, it’s nice to have a transcript…

Google Meet gets automatic meeting transcriptions

Google today announced its plans for a major expansion of its physical Google Cloud infrastructure. The company plans to launch new Google Cloud regions in six new countries: Austria, Czech…

Google Cloud expands to six more countries

Google Workspace, the company’s set of productivity tools most recently known as G Suite, is getting a major update at the company’s Cloud Next conference this week. This includes quite…

Google opens up Workspace with new integrations and APIs

Google announced today that it’s updating some of its apps to work better on tablets. Google introduced Android 12L earlier this year to make tablets easier to use, and at…

Google is adding new Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Keep optimizations for tablets

Denmark is effectively banning Google’s services in schools, after officials in the municipality of Helsingør were last year ordered to carry out a risk assessment around the processing of personal…

Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks

Gmail is now rolling out a new user interface that will show Chat and Meet sections in the side pane by default — unless you’ve already disabled them. Google introduced…

Gmail’s redesigned interface including Chat and Meet is now the new default

If the pandemic-triggered proliferation of online meetings is killing your team productivity and sapping the attention of overloaded info workers, German startup tl;dv might have just the tool: It’s built…

This startup wants to help teams get more out of virtual meetings

Lounge, a team communication startup that was looking to reimagine the future of work with features designed for remote and distributed workforces, has now found an exit after Slack entered…

Pulse, the maker of an automatic Slack status updater, acquires team communication startup Lounge

Among the privacy and security-related updates announced today at Google’s I/O conference, the company says it’s bringing phishing protection to its suite of productivity apps, including Docs, Sheets and Slides.…

Google brings phishing detection to Docs, Sheets and Slides, along with other privacy and security updates

Google and SAP have partnered around a number of different projects over the years and Google Cloud, just like its competitors, is a strategic cloud partner for RISE with SAP,…

Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud

Google has announced a package of additional controls for users of its productivity suite, Google Workspace (neé G Suite), in Europe — which it’s rolling out by the end of…

Google touts more Workspace controls for users in Europe

Google announced a major update to Google Meet today that includes a number of long-requested features and plenty that you didn’t even know you needed. There is a long list…

Google Meet gets in-meeting reactions, PiP, end-to-end encryption and more

Google Cloud gets more expensive

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Renting cloud infrastructure typically gets cheaper over time, but Google Cloud is bucking this trend today with significant price increases across a number of core services. These increases, which Google…

Google Cloud gets more expensive

Google today announced a new version of Workspace, the company’s productivity service that you probably still refer to as G Suite. With the new — and free — Google Workspace…

Google Workspace goes all in on shadow IT

Earlier this month, Google announced that it would kill free Google Workspace accounts that were using the G Suite legacy free edition. As spotted by Ars Technica and following customer…

Google will let legacy G Suite users migrate to free Google accounts

Washington, DC, Texas, Washington state and Indiana announced the latest lawsuit against Big Tech Monday, alleging that Google deceived users by collecting their location data even when they believed that…

Google gets hit with a new lawsuit over ‘deceptive’ location tracking

Already a profitable company, Miro saw the venture capital market “favorable” right now, which gave it an opportunity to build an even stronger brand for customers.

Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

Google is tying everything together with a handbook for navigating hybrid work, which includes best practice blueprints for five common hybrid meetings.

Google Workspace opens up spaces for all users

When it comes to big SaaS products, few are bigger than Google Workspace (formerly known as GSuite). So it’s maybe no surprise that one of the first people we contacted…

Javier Soltero, Google’s head of Workspace, will join us at TC Sessions: SaaS

Google today announced that it is making Workspace, the service formerly known as G Suite (and with a number of new capabilities), available to everyone, including consumers on free Google…

Google opens Workspace to everyone

As ubiquitous as Google Docs has become in the last year alone, a major criticism often overlooked by the countless workplaces that use it is that it isn’t end-to-end encrypted,…

Google will let enterprises store their Google Workspace encryption keys

Google kicked off its Google I/O Developer event this afternoon with a set of new collaborative workspace tools, which it’s calling, as a group, “Smart Canvas.” The company demonstrated using…

Google interconnects its Workspace apps, adds a dozen new features