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 Play game services is a Xbox Live-like mobile network — and offers cross-platform gaming

Google is announcing its answer to Apple's Game Center -- Google Play game services.

Google Play has 48B app installs, 2.5B in the last month alone

Google Play is doing pretty darn well, according to an update at today's Google I/O developer conference today.

900M Android activations to date, Google says

Google has activated 900 million Android devices to date, it revealed at Google I/O today.

Leak: Android 4.3 may show up at Google I/O today

Android 4.3 popped up in Google searches that were quickly removed, leading us to believe we might see the latest mobile operating system from Google in its developer conference keynote.

Automated video editing app Magisto launches one of Google’s first ‘native’ Chrome apps

Just ahead of Google I/O, "magic" movie editing application Magisto has announced it is one of the first apps to launch on Google Chrome’s packaged app platform.

Google’s big I/O reveal may be a streaming music service

Google may release its music streaming service at its major developer conference this week. It is reported that the company has signed licensing deals with music industry giants.

Google I/O doesn’t need any flashy new products to be successful

Forget the new stuff, this Google I/O will be about devs and useful upgrades.

At its conference, Google will be tracking your every step

Google will be collecting and publishing 4,000 individual data streams from its Google I/O conference this week, providing real-time visualizations on crowd activity.

Google’s pre-I/O sneak peek: Mobile recommendations

"We wanted to drive more Android installs, and it's been amazing in terms of user engagement," said Googler Seth Sternberg. "It's really sending users back to our partners."

Google’s new Android head finally breaks his silence

Just a few days before Google's I/O developer conference kicks off, Wired's Steven Levy has finally gotten Pichai to chat about Android's future.

How to be at Google I/O even if you’re not at Google I/O

Google's annual I/O developer's conference is coming up next week in San Francisco, and 6,000 lucky geeks will be flooding the Moscone Convention Center for all kinds of Google goodness: Chrome, Android, Maps, Ads, and -- of course -- Google Glass.

Google overload, or, if we never see Sergey Brin’s adorable face again, it’ll be too soon

There was a time when summer was slow. News would lull. Folks would go on vacation.

Not this year.

Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and now Google have conspired to work technology journalists to death over the past six weeks or so. …