Data showed that Android holds the top spot as the most popular mobile platform in the world but Samsung is clearly under pressure as local players step up their game, TechCrunch reported.
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Google releases new Chromecast SDK for streaming media
Tech and Internet giant Google released a new software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to build their own apps for the Chromecast streaming media dongle.
Twitter buys over 900 IBM patents to settle infringement dispute
San Francisco, US-based social media giant Twitter decided to buy more than 900 patents from American multinational tech firm IBM to settle patent infringement claims against it, with the two companies forming a patent cross-licensing agreement.
Irish firm Top Level Domain Holdings bags $33M from investors
Dublin, Ireland-based firm Top Level Domain Holdings bagged $33 million in funding from its investors to beef up its bidding power in the upcoming private auctions of new Internet domains.
Google partners with LEGO to create online brick-building playground
Google is partnering with LEGO to build an virtual brick-building playground which can be accessed through a computer, smartphone, or tablet, using the new Build with Chrome application.
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Samsung, the world's biggest cellphone maker, inked a 10-year patent agreement covering all present and future technology patents with Google, the maker of Android operating system.
The Motorola Mobility unit of Google was mostly defeated in the antitrust case it filed against LCD makers it had claimed colluded to fix prices, Bloomberg reported.
In a funny coincidence, four engineers from Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team were on Reddit's Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread right before Gmail and other Google services experienced a worldwide outage.
Google just got hit with an outage that brought down Gmail, Google Plus, Google Voice, Hangouts, and other services which lasted for around 20 minutes and got resolved by 12:23 PM Pacific Time.
Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of search giant Google, has warned that technological advances could eliminate a wide variety of jobs, the Financial Times reported.
Research from Mercom Capital Group showed that venture capital funding for companies in the smart grid technology sector was pegged at $405 million in 2013, a dip from the $434 million in 2012.
Amazon is thinking of launching an online pay-TV service and has already approached various media companies about obtaining a license to distribute their TV channels, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal citing sources.
Tech giant Google acquired Redwood City, California-based anti-spam company Impermium for an undisclosed amount, according to an announcement made by Impermium's chief executive on the company website.
Yahoo Chief Operating Officer (COO) Henrique De Castro is leaving the company tomorrow, January 16, according to a regulatory filing, but the exact reason for the departure is unclear.
