Google to Microsoft: kill your YouTube app ‘immediately’

Google has asked Microsoft to remove its homebrew YouTube app from the Windows Store immediately, and requested that it delete the app from Windows Phone users who have already downloaded it.

Google Play game services can shut down a pirated Android game

Google is tackling one of the biggest concerns for Android developers: piracy.

Google makes sending cash to a friend as easy as sending an email

As if today's other announcements weren't enough, Google is also bringing Google Wallet support to Gmail, making it incredibly easy to send friends and family payments by just sending an email.

Apple hits 50 billion app downloads, just ahead of Google

It's a good thing Apple hit the number today, because if they waited even another week, the Cupertino company might have been second-best to Google's Android

YouTube opens livestreaming for most channels

YouTube will now let channel owners do it live... streaming, that is.

Google opens up AWS competitor Compute Engine to all, adds PHP to App Engine

Google cloud infrastructure service Compute Engine is now open to all developers who want to use it.

Larry Page is sad, hopeful, and frustrated in his heartfelt Google I/O speech

Google CEO Larry Page delivered a heartfelt speech at Google I/O today, saying the we've only accomplished 1 percent of what we can in technology.

‘OK Google,’ your conversational search is awesome as hell (video)

Normally, when a company claims that it's bringing the helpfulness of a Federation starship's onboard computer to everyday technology, I sort of roll my eyes and prepare to be disappointed -- except this time that didn't really happen.

Google has rebuilt Maps from ‘ground up,’ with iPad version coming this summer

One big key to the revamp is that Google Maps is based on vector imagery and delivered via WebGL.

Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools

Google announced a new education program that will help teachers manage and push out apps and other educational content to classroom Android tablets.

Hangouts, the best part of Google+, gets standalone iOS, Android, & Chrome apps

Hangouts, the free multiperson video chat and messaging service inside Google+, has been broken out into its own standalone apps for iOS, Android, and Chrome.

Google Glass gets the first news app for the ‘connected generation’

Google Glass owners now have a news aggregation app. Straight from Glass, they can flag content for later, "like" and "dislike," or listen to an entire article.

Google Glass is for dorks — and doctors

Don't let its enormous dork factor blind you to the real-world possibilities of Google's augmented-reality glasses.

Google’s latest Nexus phone is an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 with pure Android

Google is kicking the Samsung out of the Samsung Galaxy S IV with its own custom version of the device.

Google gives mobile developers some massive love with 5 new money-making features

Google Play product manager Ellie Powers -- no relation to Austin -- shared the new features of Google Play Developer Console at Google I/O in San Francisco today.

Google announces its Spotify competitor, Google Play Music ‘All Access’ — ‘radio without rules’

After months of speculation and rumors, Google finally announced its own streaming music service called Google Music All Access today at its annual Google I/O developer conference.

Google releases location APIs that may hugely help fitness apps

Google released three application programming interfaces today, one of which can sense not just when the person is moving, but in what way.