Todd R. Weiss

Google will soon be opening a brick-and-mortar Google store in a trendy Manhattan neighborhood, where it will likely show off a wide range of Google products and services as a next-door neighbor to high-end retailers such as Dior Homme, Stella McCartney and Tiffany. That’s the conclusion of a March 10 report in Crain’s New York […]

Google is encouraging its existing Google Apps paying customers to promote the service to friends, and the company is offering a $15 per-referral cash bonus if users help Google sign up new paying customers. The Google Apps Referral Program, which will allow existing users to receive a maximum of $1,500 as a reward for up […]

Google is creating special developer events for its Cloud Platform that will travel to 26 cities around the world so that Google can show developers what they can do with the platform to drive their innovations and products. The global Cloud Platform Developer Roadshow was unveiled March 11 by Greg DeMichillie, director of product management […]

The first U.S. cities to get Google Fiber were Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., back in the fall of 2012, and now one of those communities is getting expanded service areas to bring the super-high-speed Internet and cable television services to even more households and businesses. The expanded service areas were unveiled March […]

Google is preparing to jump head-first into the nascent market for wearable devices, with a new Android software development kit (SDK) that will give developers the tools to build applications for a wide range of wearable devices that would run on Android. The plans are so far along that the new SDK will be released […]

Google’s Cultural Institute has launched an online “Women in Culture” project that tells the stories of known and unknown women who have impacted our world as part of the company’s commemoration of International Women’s Day on March 8. The fascinating online feature includes 18 new exhibits that showcase detailed stories about amazing women throughout our […]

Google is facing antitrust fines of $5 billion in India, where the company has been the subject of an antitrust investigation for some two years, according to a March 9 report in The Economic Times. The probe is being conducted by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), which is a government watchdog agency that watches […]

Google is giving $1 million to 40 global organizations that work with startup companies to encourage them to find ways to bring more women into the fields of business and technology. The program, called #40 Forward, aims to increase the number of women working within the communities served by the global startup-focused organizations by 25 […]

Google’s Gmail app for iOS has received some speed improvements that mean faster email message loading for users on their mobile devices. The new speed enhancements were touted in a March 5 post by Melissa Dominguez, a Gmail software engineer, on the Google Enterprise Blog. “Whether you’re checking your email first thing in the morning […]

Google Apps users who have been using BlackBerry devices to connect with the service through a special Google Apps Connector will have to find alternative means in early 2015 when Google drops its support for the connector. The coming change was announced in a March 5 post on the Google Apps Blog, which detailed how […]