Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. Google is in hot water with Gmail users after a relatively ...

The company added a button to its email service that allowed users to fire out a minion GIF, a character from the animated film Despicable Me, which would drop a microphone and then mute responses to ...

Take a trip backward in time with me to April Fools’ Day 2016, when Google decided to prank its users with a terrible new feature: an animated GIF featuring those yellow Tic Tacs we all know and ...

Only in Silicon Valley would there be a “GIF keyboard of choice,” but that appears to be the case with two-year-old startup Riffsy, a business that may, one day, find a way to squeeze some money out ...

Anybody could have told you that Google’s email prank today was going to go wrong. How Google itself didn’t see it coming is kind of amazing and mind-boggling. Let’s back up. Gmail’s prank seems ...

NEW YORK — Google is acknowledging that it pranked itself after an April Fool's Day Gmail tweak angered some people who use Google's email for work. Universal Pictures via Google.com Universal ...

Google is usually pretty good at April Fools' jokes, but this year's gag may have backfired. For one day only, Gmail users can choose to 'drop the mic' during email conversations. As Google puts it: ...