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
Elon Musk negotiated a sale of Tesla to Google and shook hands on the talks, but a deal never came together in the end, according to a new book about the Tesla CEO. Orders for Tesla Model S swooned in early 2013, as word of mouth spread that the electric cars were glitchy and not...Read More
You may have never heard of it, but if you are a Chrome users, chances are you’ve used Google’s QUIC protocol already. As Google disclosed this week, about half of all requests from Chrome to Google’s servers are now served over QUIC. So what’s the big deal here? QUIC is Google’s experimental, low-latency Internet transportation protocol over...Read More
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BRUSSELS—Europe’s antitrust regulator has decided to file formal charges against Google Inc. for violating the bloc’s antitrust laws, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, stepping up a five-year investigation that is set to become the biggest competition battle in Brussels since the European Union’s pursuit of Microsoft Corp. a decade ago. EU...Read More
Google is adding new features to Data Layers in its JavaScript Maps API, which will allow developers to build a new breed of interactive apps that collect geographical data input from users. With the revised API, you can now use interactive Data Layers to collect user reviews on the best places to visit in an...Read More
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