According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, the camera-equipped minivan seen on San Francisco's Bay area streets is registered to a fleet company and leased by Apple.
Google could get into the car-hailing business Google might want to start offering rides to people, much like Uber and Lyft, according to Bloomberg Business.
Analysts expected more profit and earnings per share. Google is trying to find ways to get more money, even though the company raked in $14. 48 billion in the last quarter, CNET reports.
This week in social media, Facebook began cracking down on hoaxes, Twitter launched a new feature for infrequent iOS users, and -- this just in -- Google+ still exists!
One of the holy grails of smart software is real time translation -- a concept that has been in the pages of science fiction books for decades, but which is incredibly difficult to actually accomplish. This year it appears that the next generation of translation software is emerging, with one of the chief examples being the new Google Translate app
Google's latest statistics show that although the latest version of Android, 5.0 Lollipop, has yet to make an impression in the overall Android market two months since its release.
Taiwanese device manufacturer HTC has been very transparent about its Android Lollipop update schedule so far. But if a new report sourced to a well-known developer and HTC leaker is true, Android L's release date for HTC One M8 owners might be a week or two ahead of schedule.
Android continued its domination of the global market in 2014, and if recent forecasts hold true, Google's open source operating system could be the "new Windows."
An update on Apple Pay with some early numbers from the holiday shopping season. Numbers are beginning to trickle down on the success or lack there of had by Apple's new digital payment system Apple Pay.
It's a better time than ever to own a pure Android smartphone or tablet, like the Nexus 6 or Nexus 9. That's because, according to a new rumor floating around the tech blogosphere, Google is already planning to roll out the next major Lollipop iteration, Android 5.1, as early as the end of February 2015.
In what has become a New Year's tradition and a fascinating look at ourselves, Google released the annual roundup of the top global searches for 2014. Judging from the top ten, 2014 was actually a bit of a traumatic year for everyone.
Android 5.0 Lollipop is the best mobile operating system Google has produced so far, adding a ton of advantages to the world's most popular mobile OS while making it less complicated to use than ever before.
Internet users across the globe were most fascinated and consumed with searching about the death of Robin Williams, the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and Ebola, according to Google's annual list of the most popular search terms in the past year.
While the Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4, and their one-year-older cousins the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S4 are all waiting in line for the TouchWiz-updated version of Google's Android 5.0 Lollipop to roll out, one version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 is at the front of the line.
The Spain government announced this week a new law requiring Google and other news aggregation sites to pay its content providers each time their content appears.
Google is set to close its engineering in Russia amid new regulations that require data on local citizens to be kept on servers within the country. An anonymous source with knowledge of the development told the agency about the planned move, though it was not immediately clear whether the Internet search giant was reacting to the legislation.
