Last week it was Facebook but, with Google now pricking up its ears, have we got a bidding war in the offing? The search engine giant could add Waze's social features to its maps software.
Reminding us that Bing's heart still beats pretty strongly as it struggles against Google, Microsoft has added trending topics and related individuals to Bing News as well as bumping up the article index.
Want to understand your users? Take an acting class, says Wiley, who, among other important tasks, is responsible for hiding Blade Runner and Zork references in Google products.
Google's popular Drive app for Android has been revamped to include "cards" similar to those seen in the recent Google+ redesign. In a surprise move, Google also added receipt and business card scanning-and-saving capabilities to the mobile app.
Google is closing its Checkout service, which allowed merchants to process payments, and instead is moving some of the functions into its Wallet service--which is also Google's vehicle for mobile consumer payments.
Meet Ionut Budisteanu, the precocious teen who decided he couldn’t wait for some big tech company to make autonomous vehicles available--so he invented his own.
