SAN FRANCISCO – Presiding over a company with a market value of $143 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley’s most famous billionaires a good sense of humor – and a case of corporate potty mouth.

But a report from the Wall Street Journal indicates this time around Google wants the Assistant to be a bit more personable. To do that, it’s hired comedy writers from both Pixar and the Onion.

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. Jon Wiley leads the ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. For fun, we set out to search for Google Play’s most expensive applications. The task was easier than we had ...

I'm not a big fan of April Fools' Day. Way back when, April 1 was the day when people pretended to break up with their significant others or jokingly confessed their love to a friend, only to be ...

Google added a feature to YouTube that plays back comments. Is it serious or a response to a cartoon lampooning the inanity of YouTube comments? Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

Tech companies like to get into April Fool’s day – those whimsical titans of capitalism – and nobody gets into it in a bigger way than Google, which rolls out a solid handful of gags every year, some ...

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