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With Chrome Enterprise, IT departments get the ability to manage employees’ browser settings, the extensions they install and web apps they use.

Chrome Enterprise goes Premium with new security and management features

Google’s Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology in the latest release. The company announced today it’s soon adding a trio of new AI-powered features to Chrome…

Google Chrome gains AI features, including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer

Google is launching updates to Chrome on desktop this week to make your browsing experience safer and give you more control over your browser’s memory usage.

Google updates Chrome on desktop with proactive Safety Check

Google is coming for Honey and other deal-finding tools by introducing new features on Search and Chrome to help users find discounts. The tech giant announced on Tuesday that it’s…

Google Search and Chrome are getting new tools to help users find discounts

Google Chrome is testing an option to let users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen on iOS. This comes nearly two years after Apple shifted Safari’s…

Chrome is testing an option to enable bottom-placed address bar on iOS

Google’s aiming to make it easier to use and secure passwords — at least, for users of the Password Manager tool built into its Chrome browser. Today, the tech giant…

Google’s Password Manager gains biometric authentication on desktop

Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver. Modern browsers eat up a lot of memory, and while that’s not a problem…

Chrome gets memory and energy saver modes

Google has been sanctioned A$60 million (around $40 million+) in Australia over Android settings it had applied, dating back around five years, which were found — in a 2021 court…

Google fined $40M+ for misleading location-tracking settings on Android

Google has launched a website for its Read Along app for encouraging young children to practice reading. The website, which is introduced as a public beta, works with Chrome, Firefox…

Google launches a website version of its Read Along education app for children

Google today announced that it is adding a new movie editor and a few new video editing features to Google Photos, but for now these new features will only be…

Google Photos gets a new movie editor, but only on Chromebooks for now

Google today announced an update to its password manager that will finally introduce a consistent look-and-feel across the service’s Chrome and Android implementations. Users will soon see a new unified…

Google consolidates its Chrome and Android password managers

As part of a broader update to its Chrome web browser, Google announced today a handful of new features coming to the latest build of Chrome on iOS. Among the…

Google Chrome’s latest update on iOS brings improved security, the Discover feed and more

Google today announced a set of new and updated security features for Chrome, almost all of which rely on machine learning (ML) models, as well as a couple of nifty…

Chrome will now silence many of those annoying notification permission prompts on the web

Based on a recent report, Apple’s Safari finally hit one billion users, becoming the second browser to hit the milestone, next to Google Chrome, which still shines brighter in popularity.…

Report shows that Safari reaches one billion worldwide users, still behind Google Chrome

Google has been working to better integrate its visual search tools from Google Lens into its browser to enable new types of searches that can identify what you see, not…

Google Lens comes to Chrome for searching using images from webpages

In a rare show of alliance, Apple, Google and Microsoft have joined forces to expand support for passwordless logins across mobile, desktop and browsers. Passwords are notoriously insecure, with weak…

Apple, Google and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins

Cybersecurity 101: These Android settings and features will help protect your privacy and security.

These Android features will help protect your digital privacy

Google has just announced the next stage of trials of its Privacy Sandbox proposal — focused on ads relevance and measurement. The Sandbox refers to an evolving — and now…

Google starts global tests of Privacy Sandbox ad targeting

The Chrome OS team is launching version 100 of its lightweight operating system today and with that, it’s bringing quite a few interesting changes to the platform. The most obvious…

Chrome OS gets a new launcher for its 100th birthday

This may feel like déjà vu because Google itself mistakenly leaked this announcement a few days ago, but the company today officially announced the launch of Steam OS on Chrome…

Steam (officially) comes to Chrome OS

Version 100 of Google Chrome will launch within the next few weeks, but even after all of this time, there’s still some room for speeding up the browser. As Google…

Google says Chrome on macOS is now faster than Safari

Google today announced Chrome OS Flex, an early preview of a new initiative that aims to bring Chrome OS to virtually any PC (and older Intel-based Macs). Built on top…

Google wants to bring Chrome OS to your PC or Mac

Google today announced a couple of updates to Chrome that bring, among other things, a new way to resume your past searches in the browser. This new feature, dubbed “Journeys,”…

Google brings a smarter search history page to Chrome

Island, a Dallas-based startup that has built a Chromium-based browser for the enterprise, has emerged from stealth with almost $100 million in funding. Island claims its aptly-named Enterprise Browser, which…

Island emerges from stealth with a new enterprise-focused web browser

The Mozilla Foundation today released its financial report for 2020. As usual, this gives us a good picture of the organization’s financial health from a year ago, but for the…

Mozilla expects to generate more than $500M in revenue this year

As part of an ongoing antitrust investigation into Google’s Privacy Sandbox by the UK’s competition regulator, the adtech giant has agreed to an expanded set of commitments related to oversight…

Google agrees with UK’s CMA to deeper oversight of Privacy Sandbox

Alternative mobile browser Firefox today shipped its latest release for iOS and Android with an update aimed at helping users address common issues — like the visual clutter of having…

Firefox’s updated mobile browser promises less clutter, easier access to recent tasks

Android 12 is now officially available for Google’s Pixel phones and will slowly roll out to others in the coming months. Chances are, you think of Android as a consumer…

Google launches a bug bounty program for Android Enterprise

Google is launching a new version of its Chrome Beta browser today that’s introducing some fairly notable changes to its user interface and design. The browser will introduce an updated…

Chrome Beta to experiment with a more powerful New Tab page, web highlights and search changes

At its annual Build conference today, Microsoft announced a couple of new features for version 91 of its Edge browser that, like so much at Build this year, aren’t earth-shattering…

Microsoft’s Edge browser can now start up faster and put your tabs to sleep