Todd R. Weiss

When it began operating in 1998 from a garage in Menlo Park, Calif., Google was a pure-play Internet search company with a starkly simple home page and a revolutionary plan to improve Web search using its own special algorithms. Fifteen years later, search is still the crown jewel of Google’s business, but the company used […]

Google is being sued by a German design and engineering company over allegations that its Google Earth product infringes on the patents held for a similar product invented by the company, ART+COM, back in 1994. The lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 20 in United States District Court in Delaware, claims Google Earth displays “a remarkable […]

The wonders and majesty of the Taj Mahal and 29 other important architectural treasures in India are now on display for online visitors around the world to explore through spectacular color images in Google’s Street View galleries. The images were collected recently by Google personnel who used the company’s innovative Street View Trekker backpack-mounted cameras […]

Google is looking for a few great young companies to invest in through a new Google Capital growth equity fund that it has formed to help nurture promising new business ventures that are in the midst of their growth phases. “Ever since our founders began working out of a garage in Menlo Park, we’ve thought […]

Google has just announced several new updates for its Chrome for iOS, Chrome OS and Chrome browser software products that repair bugs, improve stability and add new features for users. Amid the updates is a new Chrome 33 browser release for iPads and iPhones, according to a Feb. 18 post by Jason Kersey of the […]

Google Maps, which has been the subject of a big redesign since May 2013, is now finished and available to users as a default online application to help them get around from point to point. The redesign’s completion and the availability of the latest Maps services were announced by Brian McClendon, vice president of Google […]

The Google Drive API is the featured topic for a new, free online course aimed at helping app developers learn more about how to use the Drive API in their apps. Google is offering the online course through Code School, an online learning community that provides a wide range of classes for developers, according to […]

Google wants its Google Glass devices to prosper, so it just released a sort of “etiquette guide” online to help users avoid offending others when using Glass in public places. Reports from around the nation have occasionally made headlines when bars, restaurants and other public facilities have posted signs inside their establishments banning the use […]

The rollout of Google Fiber ultra-high-speed Internet and cable television could get a huge boost in coverage areas across the United States as the company today unveiled plans to potentially bring its services to another 34 communities across nine metro areas of the nation. The 34 additional communities—which are clustered around the Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; […]

The Android rumor mill is alive with reports from anonymous sources that Google is pushing device makers to load the latest version of Android KitKat 4.4 on their new devices to boost the operating system and bring the latest new features to users. The reports are based on what is being called a leaked memo […]

Google is bringing SlickLogin into its fold to add the Israeli startup’s sound-based log-in authentication services to Google’s always-broadening reach in the IT marketplace. The acquisition was unveiled in a post on SlickLogin’s Website by the three founders of the startup. “Today we’re announcing that the SlickLogin team is joining Google, a company that shares […]

As he was preparing to find ideas for his bachelor’s thesis, Gregor Weichbrodt, a 25-year-old Berlin college student began reading a book called “Uncreative Writing.” That book, by poet and artist Kenneth Goldsmith, got him thinking about creative ways to use language, words and technology. What he soon came up with was the idea for […]