Todd R. Weiss

Google’s Motorola Mobility unit is selling off a chunk that Google didn’t want to keep—the Motorola Home division that sells set-top boxes for consumer cable television services. Now with the unit’s sale getting under way and Google’s related Motorola Mobility layoffs and office closings continuing around the world, Google can refocus its remaining Motorola business […]

Google Apps customers who also wanted to use Google Apps Vault archiving services have been out of luck in the past, since the service was only available to new users. That’s changed now that Google has unveiled the Apps Vault services for existing Apps and Apps for Education customers. The Apps Vault offering debuted in […]

Google is making it easier for music lovers to build their online music collections by introducing a new service that automatically scans the songs stored on your computer and copies them to the cloud, where you can access them from your mobile devices for free. The company unveiled the new feature, using the Google Play […]

Google’s ongoing discussions with the Federal Trade Commission regarding antitrust allegations against the search giant have been rumored since October to be proceeding to a final decision by the end of 2012. Now, though, that timeline has been extended into 2013, according to a Dec. 19 report from Bloomberg. “The agency had been expected to […]

Google and Facebook have been raking in mobile ad revenue in the United States at a higher rate than was expected earlier this year, resulting in both companies outperforming earlier analyst estimates, according to a new research study by eMarketer. “Overall spending on mobile advertising in the U.S., including display, search and messaging-based ads served […]

Google’s Maps app for Apple’s iOS 6 garnered more than 10 million downloads by users in the first 48 hours after it became available in Apple’s App Store Dec. 13, satiating many iOS users who have been scrambling for help since Apple’s maps fiasco in September. The status report on the new Google Maps release […]

Google is helping mobile device users to avoid an aggravating problem: That moment when they accidentally click on a nearby banner ad on their screen and the device calls up the ad in full view. Don’t you hate when that happens? So does Google and many of its users, ad publishers and advertisers, who all […]

Google is testing out an “experimental feature” of its Flight Search service that aims to give travelers more information about travel options all in one screen. The new service, Flight Explorer, builds off Google’s existing Google Flights offering, which gave prospective travelers a place to easily search for flights from point A to point B. […]

The Google Maps app for the iPhone was gone for only three months, but its return is a major boon for frustrated iPhone users who will again be able to use it easily on their devices. That’s the word from two IT analysts who spoke with eWEEK about the Dec. 13 announcement that Google’s Maps […]

Yahoo is rolling out faster, better-designed and sleeker email services, all bearing the backing of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who joined the company July 16 after helping to make email one of the biggest successes with her former employer, Google. The new Yahoo Mail services were announced Dec. 11 in a post by Mayer on […]

Whitney Houston’s volatile personal life and her tragic death in February topped the list of Google searches in 2012, both globally and in the United States, according to Google’s Annual Zeitgeist most-popular searches list. “As 2012 comes to a close, it’s time for our 12th annual Year-End Zeitgeist—an in-depth look at the ‘spirit of the […]

Facebook’s one-week voting period to gauge user reaction to proposed changes to Facebook’s user policies ended Dec. 10, and according to early results, Facebook won the right to make changes as it sees fit. That means Facebook members will no longer be voting on proposed user policy changes as they have done in the past […]