Google Glass was the most hotly anticipated invention of last year – until it flopped and was shelved. Laura French looks at what went wrong

Ruth Porat has traded Morgan Stanley for Google and joined the growing list of Wall Street names jumping ship to Silicon Valley

Google’s new system will change the way businesses advertise on television by more accurately measuring viewing behaviour

Google helps Mattel reinvent the View-Master, bringing the retro toy back up-to-date

With Uber developing its own driverless cars, Google is set to launch its own online taxi service

Google and Fidelity Investments have pumped $1bn into spacecraft firm Space X, as the firm moves closer towards the vision of providing internet access via space satellites

Google has announced it is shelving its current version of Google Glass as the tech giant shifts its focus to Glass at Work – a wearable designed for use in business

Search engine titan Google felt the sting of a Firefox-Yahoo deal in December, with its share of the US market dropping to 75.2 percent

Just when Google thought it was safe to enter the water to lay its giant internet cable between the US and Japan, it discovered it must contend with the ocean’s top predator

Autonomous cars are already being tested on public roads in the US. For the sick, infirm and incompetent, it’s a boon: for others, it’s a sign our reliance on computers is out of control

Under EU ruling Google could face fines of up to $6bn if it does not come up with new proposals to resolve a dispute opened in 2010

For the first time ever, driverless cars will legally be allowed to go on the road, but the most advanced cars are still not ready to safely navigate the US streets