Todd R. Weiss

Google’s Motorola Mobility unit could be facing antitrust charges from the European Union after the agency notified the company that its conduct in seeking a court injunction against Apple last year in Germany “amounts to an abuse of a dominant position prohibited by EU antitrust rules.” According to a May 6 report from the European […]

Google’s YouTube video sharing unit is putting the finishing touches on plans to create new subscriptions for some YouTube premium content that would charge users $1.99 a month to view the videos. The affected content would include about 50 popular specialized YouTube channels, and would help the company bring in a new revenue stream, according […]

Google has released the first scant details about its upcoming Google I/O 2013 Developers Conference by posting a bare-bones schedule for its annual code and innovation love-in and training ground. The sixth annual I/O conference will kick off May 15 in San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center West, at 800 Howard Street, and run through May […]

Google has been testing Chromebook-equipped store kiosks that make it easier for businesses to help their customers and employees check merchandise stock, place orders or get more information while shopping or working. The kiosks use something Google calls “Managed Public Sessions” to allow employee and customer use of the devices without the need for logging […]

Google has launched an electronic-payment system in Kenya so that bus riders there can pay with a card rather than with cash, which makes it easier for passengers and provides new streams of consumer information for Google. The payment system, called BebaPay, is being run in partnership with East Africa’s largest bank, Equity Bank, according […]

Google Maps has been in the process of moving to a new default JavaScript Maps API Version 3 since May 2010, but the move is now being delayed for six more months due to slow developer adoption. The change had been scheduled to take place on May 19, when the JavaScript Maps API Version 2 […]

Google has finally unveiled its cool, useful Now app for iPhone and iPad users that offers new ways to get information as they need it, right on their mobile devices. “Google Now for iPhone and iPad is available as part of the updated Google Search app,” wrote Andrea Huey, a Google engineer, in an April […]

Google is shuttering its Meebo chat and content-sharing toolbar services on June 6, less than a year after acquiring the company in June of 2012. The Meebo team announced the closing on the Meebo Website. “Five years ago, we launched the Meebo Bar to bring community, engagement and revenue to publisher sites,” the post states. […]

Google Glass apps development can now get under way in a big way, now that Google has released the open-source Android-based kernel code for its Glass project. The Linux code was released on April 27 on the Google Glass kernel source Web page for now, but another Website will likely be established for the code, […]

Google will make changes to how it displays its search results in Europe to mollify European regulators who have been investigating antitrust allegations against the company since 2010. Under the deal, Google will provide better labeling of its own promoted content and will improve how it displays links to competitors’ online ads, according to an […]