According to the White House, US President Barack Obama met with tech executives along with transparency advocates to deliberate on the government's surveillance programs.
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China to probe EMC, IBM, Oracle for security issues
Shanghai Securities News said the Ministry of Public Security and a cabinet-level research center of China were preparing to investigate on EMC Corp, IBM Corp and Oracle Corp over security concerns.
Google blocks Microsoft's YouTube app for Windows Phone
Google blocked videos from playing on the Windows Phone YouTube app made by Microsoft. The videos from the YouTube app installed in every Windows Phone were blocked by Google for infringing the terms of use.
Smartphones outsell feature phones for the first time
Gartner said during the second quarter, smartphones outsold feature phones for the first time. According to research firm Gartner, smartphones outsold feature phones during the second quarter for the first time.
Report says HTC is dumping Windows Phone
A report from Digitimes said HTC would most likely "drift away" from Windows Phone so that it could focus on its Android smartphones.
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Nokia Corp accounted for 81% of all the Windows Phone shipments allowing Windows Phone to increase its market share to 3.7%.
Nuance Communications recorded its highest price since May after Carl Icahn reportedly increased his stake in the speech recognition software developer.
Microsoft's Windows Phone boosted its smartphone market share from 3% to 4% allowing it to take the third highest position in the market.
Android-powered smartphones continued to reign with its growing market share while iPhone and BlackBerry's sales plunged in the second quarter.
Demand Media's total revenue growth slowed to 9% to US$101.1 million due to changes at Google. On Wednesday, Demand Media said its aggregate year on year revenue growth slowed to 9% during the second quarter to US$101.
BlackBerry lost its third place position in a race for major smartphone platforms. Even with the launch of the latest mobile operating system and some new smartphones, BlackBerry still keeps on failing to establish a major smartphone platform that could be behind the lead of Android from Google and iOS from Apple Inc.
The US Court of Appeals renewed the patent claims that Apple filed against Google's Motorola Mobility.
Microsoft launched a new tool that would help it increase the number of apps in its mobile platform.
According to research firm Canalys, the shipments for Android-based tablets exceeded the consignments for iPads from Apple Inc in the second quarter.
