Apple Inc and Google Inc may be pummeling BlackBerry in the smartphone department but the Canada-based firm is the leading player in the connected-car department, Bloomberg reported.

Menlo Park, US-based venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners (LSVP) closed $950 million for its new investment fund that will back early-stage companies in the consumer and tech sectors.

American Internet and tech giant Google struck a manufacture and distribution deal with Italian optical wear maker Luxottica for the future versions of its wearable Glass.

According to Mashable, Google has intended to develop a YouTube site dedicated for children below 10 years old which could be ideal as more than 6 billion hours of videos are being watched by teens every month on the social media video platform.

San Francisco, US-based health tech firm Metabiota pocketed $2.38 million in a venture round to monitor emerging threats of viral diseases around the world using big data analysis.

New York, US-based social media management startup Percolate landed $24 million in a Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to help companies monitor conversations and create content on social media.

Google scored a big victory after US District Judge Lucy Koh did not allow the lawsuits regarding email scanning to proceed as a class action lawsuit, Bloomberg News reported.

An ex-pilot wrote the most plausible factual theory of what happened to missing flight MH370, reported the Business Insider.

After its recent purchases of Motorola Mobility and IBM's server business, Chinese personal computer (PC) maker Lenovo said that it will continue its string of acquisitions to drive its growth.

Google Drive and chat services such as Google+ Hangouts were affected by a widespread outage which began at 12 pm ET on Monday, with Google still investigating the issue.