Google is honoring moms of all species with this year’s adorable Mother’s Day Google Doodle. The animated logo replaces the “o” of Google, first with a swan and her cygnet, before morphing into a cheetah and her cub. The coral, orange and yellow doodle next becomes a rabbit and her kits, before finally transforming into...Read More
Google wants schools to use its products, but more than that, it wants to ensure they use them in the right way. Which is why today, the search giant kicked off an international web conference called Education on Air, which will convene some 43,000 educators from 12 different countries over the course of the next...Read More
Adam Berry—Getty Images The Google logo is seen inside the company’s offices on March 23, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. It’s investing $150 million in diversity initiatives this year Google looks to be getting serious about increasing the diversity of its workforce. The company told USA Today this week that it’s planning to invest $150 million...Read More
When time-management startup Timeful launched its iOS app last July, it faced a basic challenge. Its app uses artificial intelligence to help busy folks find the time to keep on top of important matters in their professional and personal lives. But no matter how effectively it did so, convincing people to dump the apps they...Read More
GoogleGoogle VP Don Harrison. See Also Over the years, Google has acquired more than 180 different companies. On its top ten acquisitions alone, it has spent more than $24.5 billion dollars. That’s a lot of money, but Google has learned how to make the most of those purchases. Time Magazine recently wrote that the company...Read More
Adam Berry/Getty Images By Lisa Eadiciccio Google is changing its strategy with Google Plus. In a sense, it’s giving up on pitching Google Plus as a social network aimed at competing with Facebook. Instead, Google Plus will become two separate pieces: Photos and Streams. This didn’t come as a surprise — Google Plus never really...Read More
After years of arguments over how its Google News service handles content in Europe, Google is offering both money and cooperation to large publishers in several EU countries. Acknowledging past mistakes, a Google executive says, “We are a teenage ‘tech’ company after all!” Last December, Google shut down its Google News page in Spain, after...Read More
Google executive Dan Fredinburg died while climbing Mt. Everest during the massive Nepal earthquake on Saturday. Fredinburg was privacy director for the company’s Google X team, which is responsible for some of the search company’s more forward-thinking initiatives, including driverless cars and Google Glass. A frequent and experienced climber, Fredinburg was scaling Everest with two...Read More
By Roger Fingas Friday, April 24, 2015, 08:07 am PT (11:07 am ET) An unknown person has inserted an Easter egg image into Google Maps, depicting the mascot for the Android operating system urinating on an Apple logo, and is now gaining attention across the Internet. The image was discovered by Team Android and can...Read More
Earlier today, Google officially announced its plans to offer its own wireless service under the Project Fi moniker. As expected, the effort taps three networks: LTE networks from Sprint and T-Mobile along with a heavy dose of Wi-Fi. Customers pay $20 per month plus $10 for each gigabyte of data they use. So why is...Read More
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