Todd R. Weiss

Businesses need customers to succeed and flourish, so with that in mind, Google is launching a free, new project that aims to better connect business owners with the customers who want to buy their products and services. The new “Google My Business” program, which will help businesses improve their online connections with customers, was announced […]

Google wants to be your personal guide to the World Cup 2014 competition, which begins today in Brazil, by making it easier to find details about matches, players and more through simple Google searches. With that in mind, Google has unveiled several World Cup-centric search features that will give soccer-crazed fans all they want to […]

Using Google Hangouts+, Google has been working on an innovative project in the Middle East to use technology to bridge the cultural gaps between young Arab and Israeli students through online video conferencing. The project, called “Hangout Bridges: Bridges to Peace,” began in September of 2013 and was just concluded earlier this month through a […]

Google FlightSearch has added a fun new “I’m Feeling Lucky” button to its FlightSearch service so that prospective travelers can see which exciting destinations Google might suggest for their next trip. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button is rolling out to Google FlightSearch users over the next several days and provides some intriguing travel ideas if […]

Satellite and satellite imaging vendor Skybox Imaging is being acquired by Google for $500 million as Google continues to buy businesses that it believes will grow and bolster its expanding services and research. The purchase of Skybox was announced by Google in a statement on June 10, following a string of other acquisitions in May. […]

Google has just launched a new version of its Content API for Shopping for Google AdWords marketers, while also announcing plans to phase out support for two older Google Maps JavaScript API libraries. The availability of the new Content API was announced by Eric Tholomé, director of product management for Google Shopping, in a June […]

Google Glass continues to gain a high-fashion edge now that Glass frames designed by American fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg will go on sale starting June 23. The latest fashion frames for Glass were recently unveiled in a Google+ post on the Google Glass page as the von Furstenberg DVF Made for Glass Collection, which […]

Website searches shouldn’t lead to frustration for users. That’s the idea behind a batch of how-to suggestions from Google that aim to fix incorrect connections between Websites and incoming requests from mobile devices. The link repair tips were unveiled in a June 4 post by Mariya Moeva, a Webmaster trends analyst, on the Google Webmaster […]

Some 32,000 Chromebooks are being purchased by the Chesterfield County Public Schools in Chesterfield, Va., so that all middle and high school students in the district have one to use for their studies starting this fall. The district’s new Chromebook initiative was announced by Jason Katcher, Google’s head of North America large customer education sales, […]

The 2014 Google “Doodle 4 Google” contest has been won by an 11-year-old New York girl who used her imagination to fulfill the contest’s theme—creating an invention that would make the world a better place. Audrey Zhang’s winning entry, a colorful and detailed doodle of a “transformative water purifier” that could potentially clean polluted water […]

Google is looking for the right software developers to build applications for the company’s early 3D Project Tango tablet devices as they are refined, explored and enhanced with new features. To make that happen, Google is making available a restricted quantity of Project Tango Development Kits that it is selling for $1,024 to serious developers […]

Spurred on by a competition organized by Google, San Francisco Bay Area residents chose the winners of four $500,000 grants that Google will now distribute to four local community nonprofit groups so they can fulfill imaginative projects. Six other finalist groups each won $250,000 grants for their projects, while another 15 nonprofits previously received $100,000 […]