Todd R. Weiss

Google is apparently the subject of a new, fledgling antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in connection with how the company is selling and marketing its online ads, which are at the heart of Google’s annual revenue. The nascent investigation was reported by Reuters and Bloomberg, based on anonymous sources who provided some […]

Google’s Crisis Response unit has created a “crisis map” Web page to help the tornado-devastated community of Moore, Okla., continue its clean-up and recovery after a powerful tornado ripped through the town on May 20. The Moore Crisis Map Web page includes a detailed map of the area and the path of the EF5 tornado […]

Google’s Android team has unveiled new apps to improve the company’s Drive and Chrome services for Android users. The new Google Drive app for Android now incorporates several changes to simplify its operation for users, wrote Denis Teplyashin, a Google software engineer, in a May 22 post on the Official Android Blog. “The process of […]

Google’s DoubleClick unit, which serves up graphical ads to users as they conduct searches, is hosting its annual “ThinkDoubleClick” digital leadership summit June 4 to help online advertisers gain insights into the latest online ad trends today. The free online conference will feature speakers from myriad successful online advertisers and publishers, including Coca-Cola, Omnicom Digital, […]

Google Chrome’s latest Version 27 Web browser just picked up innovative speech-to-search capabilities and increased speed, as it has been pushed out to the Chrome Stable Release Channel. The latest Version 27.0.1453.93 of the lightweight, flexible Web browser was unveiled in a May 21 post by Karen Grunberg of the Chrome team on the Google […]

Google’s Checkout tool, which allows customers to make purchases of services or physical goods from online vendors, is being dropped by the company as of Nov. 20. Created by Google in 2006, the service has outlived its usefulness for the search giant and will end as the company plays up and expands its related Google […]

Google Glass will be launched later this year for retail sales to buyers, which is at least months earlier than the 2014 retail debut the company has been targeting since last year, a source inside Google told eWEEK today. “Our goal is to launch Glass later this year,” the source told eWEEK in an email […]

Google’s YouTube unit just turned 8 years old, having launched in May 2005 as a video-sharing Website where people could post their creative works and watch to see if they gained any footholds. The results have been quite amazing, with YouTube today receiving more than 100 hours of uploaded video from creators each minute, according […]

Google’s cool Maps APIs always seem to be helping innovative software developers find new ways to display information for users around the world. We here at eWEEK are always combing the Internet, looking for interesting Google Maps sites to share with our readers. So what did we come up with this time? Scan our list […]

For Google Glass, it was only a matter of time before Glass-enabled Facebook and Twitter apps were launched for Glass users to hook up with their favorite social media platforms. That time, apparently, is now, as new apps for Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more were announced and shown off May 16 at the Google I/O […]