Tech companies love April Fools’ Day, and can be counted on to try to prank their users with an ad for some inane new feature. But sometimes their pranks backfire. Email’s great, but sometimes you ...

Did you stare droolingly at last Friday’s Gmail Motion news? The idea was that you’d use your computer’s camera to capture your own gestures, which would in turn be translated into commonly-used Gmail ...

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter ...

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, thought that Gmail was an April Fool's Day joke when he was hired. He was hired on April 1, 2004, the same day that the popular email product launched. "I interviewed ...

It's April Fool's Day, and like every year, Google knows it. This year the tech company with a fun side is offering Gmail Autopilot, which will automatically reply to messages from both bosses, ...

It was such a mind-bending concept that shortly after The Associated Press published a story about Gmail late on the afternoon of April Fool's 2004, readers began calling and emailing to inform the ...