Microsoft's Windows Phone boosted its smartphone market share from 3% to 4% allowing it to take the third highest position in the market.
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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.
Google launches Impact Challenge in India for Independence Day
Google would launch 'Google Impact Challenge in India' and award an Rs 3 crore worth about US$500,000 and technical assistance that would bring the winning projects into life.
Cloud computing delivers innovation, cost cutback in banking - analysts
According to analysts, banks are shifting to cloud computing since it could deliver innovation and cost cutback in banking.
Obama, tech officials met to deliberate about surveillance
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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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.
Analysts said that Google's Moto X would not be enough to aid it in establishing a stronger presence in the growing smartphone market.
Facebook hired Gary Briggs from Google's Motorola Mobility as its first ever marketing chief. Facebook hired Gary Briggs, Motorola Mobility's former chief marketer, to be the social networking site's first ever chief marketing officer.
The European competition authority intensified its scrutiny on Google's search results as competitor blocking concerns in search results were raised by search engine rivals.
