Google (GOOG) has a reputation for playing April Fool's pranks. (This year's renaming the site Topeka as a twist on Topeka, Kansas calling itself Google is pretty amusing.) And it had an impressive ...

The site teases the fake news that it will shut down at midnight. By Erik Hayden April Fool’s day is arriving early for YouTube. In a video uploaded on the site on Sunday, the company teases the fake ...

SAN JOSE (KCBS) - Google may have pulled off its most elaborate April Fool's Day joke yet, sending loyal and occasional users into a tizzy when the search giant announced over the weekend that it was ...

A YouTube-famous couple has apologized for sending their 6-year-old daughter to tears with the April Fools’ prank that they were giving away the family dog, a stunt that has since been blasted by many ...

If you ever uploaded a video on YouTube, congratulations! You’ve just been entered into a contest for the world’s best video, and they won’t be accepting anymore entries after midnight. Or, more ...

People have been playing jokes on each other since they could talk, and April Fools' Day gives each of us an open forum to get back at them, while having a few laughs at the expense of everyone else.

In an elaborate ruse, the world's most popular video site announces it's been nothing but a contest site this whole time and says it's going dark for the next decade. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

YouTube is changing the way some ads are shown on videos very soon with the removal of “Overlay ads” from content starting April 6. “Overlay ads” are banner-style pop-up ads that often disrupt or ...

Steven Asarch is a tech reporter for Newsweek currently based in New York City. In high school, he started stand-up comedy but quickly learned he wasn’t very funny. After graduating from Baruch ...