Todd R. Weiss

Google wants to be a marketer’s best friend online. That’s why the search company just created its new Google Tag Manager tool to make it easier and faster for online digital marketers to “tag” content on Websites so it can be connected to online users. The free Google Tag Manager is now available in English […]

Google is worth more than Microsoft on paper for the first time since Google splashed onto the technology scene in 1998, marking a financial milestone for the search engine company as it continues to grow. Google’s stock price rose 1 percent to $761.78 at the close of the stock markets in New York on Oct. […]

Google’s year-long project to cut out little-used services so the company can focus on its most popular offerings to customers continues with a new round of features that are on the chopping block. The latest upcoming service cuts includes a myriad of Google ideas that just didn’t catch on with enough users, from AdSense for […]

Google’s Gmail service is now functioning again in Iran one week after government officials blocked it after the company refused to remove a controversial anti-Islam video clip from its YouTube streaming video Website. The restoration of Gmail service came starting late Sept. 30, according to an Oct. 1 report from Reuters. “The council on Internet […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook just did what some analysts say Steve Jobs would never have done: Cook just issued a five-paragraph apology to its customers for the performance of the new Apple Maps service, which has been roundly criticized by many users since its Sept. 19 launch as part of the new iOS 6 software. […]

The Google Docs built-in exporting feature that allows users to export Docs files into Microsoft Office will only support the latest Microsoft Office file formats starting Oct. 1, which could cause potential file export hassles for users who still use older 1997 to 2003 versions of Office. The change will only relate to the use […]

Google will soon start buying green wind power for its expanding data center in Mayes County, Okla., as the search company continues to grow its use of renewable, green energy at its facilities. The agreement was unveiled by Gary Demasi, director of Google’s Global Infrastructure team, in a Sept. 26 post on the Google Blog. […]

When asked why Google Maps was dropped from Apple’s iOS 6 mobile operating system, both Apple and Google regularly refer to the end of the original five-year partnership the two companies signed in 2007 when the first iPhones debuted. Skeptics, however, have always felt there was certainly more to the change, including the increasing competitive […]

For the first time, Google Maps is adding underwater panoramic images of spectacular reefs around the world to the extensive and growing library of images in its Street View collection. The new images, of underwater reefs in Australia, Hawaii and the Philippines, come to the Street View collection from the Caitlin Seaview Survey, which is […]

The Google Play store may have come on the scene much later than Apple’s App Store, but it’s apparently wasting no time capturing the hearts and wallets of rabid Android fans—the store has reached 25 billion downloads after a little more than six months, according to Google. “We’ve now crossed 25 billion downloads from Google […]