Todd R. Weiss

In its first revenue report since officially acquiring Motorola Mobility in May, Google posted second-quarter revenue of $12.21 billion, which is a 35 percent increase from the $9.03 billion the search company earned during the second quarter of 2011. The company released its fiscal 2012 second-quarter results July 19. The quarter ended June. 30 €œGoogle […]

After being available as a beta release for more than a year, Google’s new version of Analytics now officially replaces the old version that’s been both loved and cursed at by business users since its debut. “After a year of supporting both the old and new versions of Analytics, we are now fully transitioning and […]

Users of Mozilla Firefox 14 will now have a more secure Web browsing experience compared with other browsers since the latest version of the open-source browser conducts all Google searches using a secure HTTPS connection by default. The tighter Google search security is among a myriad of updates and improvements in the latest Firefox release, […]

After an embarrassing and distracting string of three CEOs just since January, Yahoo appears to be making a determined effort to get things back on track with its announcement July 16 that Google executive Marissa Mayer will now head Yahoo’s operations as CEO and president. The question that remains, however, is Mayer, 37, the right […]

Two weeks after proposing search engine configuration changes that could help avoid formal charges by European antitrust regulators, Google has again updated its proposed changes in hopes of resolving the case. “Google has submitted a revised package of concessions to address the concerns of Europe€™s top competition authority, bringing the talks to settle the EU […]

Since its online debut in early 2005, YouTube continues to grow as a news outlet for people who are expanding the ways in which they consume news coverage, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. And as that happens, YouTube is creating “a new kind of visual […]

All of the fascinating details about the futuristic, intricate technology behind Google’s Project Glass eyewear-mounted computer may not be splashed all over the Internet by the company, but if you know where to look, some answers are waiting to be found. Google’s patent application, which is listed online, reveals plenty of enticing details about the […]

The U.S. market for feature-rich smartphones is still expanding at a rapid clip, with two-thirds of new mobile phone buyers opting for devices that can do far more than their old-style flip phones, according to new research from Nielsen released July 12. Google€™s Android operating system is the beneficiary of this surge, although the iPhone […]

After previously filing lawsuits against Apple and Microsoft, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based company is now suing Google for allegedly infringing on one of its patents in Google’s Chrome mobile Web browser. EMG Technology alleges in its lawsuit that Google’s Chrome mobile browser illegally takes advantage of technologies that were invented by EMG’s leader, Elliot Gottfurcht, […]

The rumored smartphone line being undertaken by e-retailing giant Amazon.com could launch with a potential disadvantage: If they are built, the smartphones may not be available for sale until after this year’s holiday sales season. That’s because the timeframe for the start of production of the new devices is “late this year or early next […]

Support for Google Drive cloud storage and offline support of Google Docs are among the touted new features in the latest version of Google’s Chrome OS release€”dubbed Chrome OS 20€”which the search company detailed in a July 12 blog post. “The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 20 to the […]

Now that Android 4.1, or Jelly Bean, is beginning to show up on new devices, the next raw version of the open-source project has been released to developers so they can begin working on future updates and releases. In a blog post in the Android Building Google Group, Jean-Baptiste Queru, the technical lead of Google’s […]