As we’ve said before, 2016 is set to be the year virtual reality goes mainstream. Facebook, Google, Samsung, GoPro, Sony, Conde Nast and a host of others are all lining up to launch 3d goggles […]
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Google Will Get Massive Fine From The European Union For Abuse Of Competitive Position
The European Union made clear on Monday that it intends to levy fines on Google Inc. large enough to act as a deterrent to other monopolies as punishment for squeezing out rivals in the comparison […]
New Data Shows Android Powered Smartphones Dominating Global Market
A new survey of real-time smartphone usage has confirmed both that Android dominates the global smartphone market and that its usage is heavily influenced by how much money users have. Android’s close ties to the […]
Boeing Feels Tensions With Russia As State Carrier Cuts Plane Order
Russian national airline Aeroflot, in a politically charged move, announced on Thursday that it has cancelled its order for 22 Boeing 787 airliners. The message was delivered by the carrier’s deputy general director for strategy […]
Facebook Tweaks News Feed To Bury Friend Content, Increase Ads
Facebook loves fiddling with its News Feed algorithm. The company, now stocked with ex-Googler’s the search giant didn’t want, has always tried to tweak its news feed to get the engagement Google does with its […]
While Yahoo Signs Celebs, Google Aggressively Ramping eSports TV
Google is known to be a data driven business. Virtually every decision the search giant makes across all its product lines is supported by rigorous data analysis. Competitors like Netflix are also known to do […]
Court Rules Google Is, In Fact, Subject To Canadian Law
Google has long had a belief that because it is ‘From The Internet’ regular laws, rules and regulations don’t apply to it. This week we reported that in France, Google tried, and failed, to use […]
Amazon, Google, Facebook Snub European Commission Officials On Taxes
Big tech companies are known to be global tax evaders, using an elaborate corporate structures to pay virtually no tax. We’ve covered the practice here and here, yet there’s more action on this issue in […]
Why Google Doesn’t Need Its Own Streaming Music Service
Streaming music is big business. Big enough that Apple just moved into the space with its Apple Music service, joining Pandora, Spotify, Amazon’s Prime Music, Rdio, Deezer, Songza and a host of other, even smaller, […]
Rise Of The Chinese Tech Titans Continues As Search Giant Baidu Announces Self Driving Car
Baidu, the Google of China, is literally working on its own versions of just about every core product Google has or has in the pipeline. It does search, it does maps and now its doing […]
Chinese Tech Giant Xiaomi Is Now The Second Largest Wearables Company In The World
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has quickly assembled a wide portfolio of world beating products, from smartphones to fitness trackers to its super popular backup batteries, yet has to date only sold the items in China. […]
Don’t Be Evil? Google Is Now One Of America’s Largest Lobbyists
Before the Google boys were billionaires a couple dozen times over, the company promised to Do No Evil. Oh how times change. In addition to being one of the world’s largest privacy invaders, Google is […]
Google Secretly Storing All Your ‘OK Google’ Voice Commands
Google doesn’t have a good reputation for protecting user privacy so, while disturbing, it should come as no surprise that a free service from Mountain View abuses what little you have left. It was discovered […]
Google Can Now Count The Calories Of Your Food Porn
Google continues to push hard into the realm of artificial intelligence, with its Google Now service increasingly offering predictive alerts based where you are and what you’re doing. Its latest project, yet to be released, […]
Google Announces Snow Job Of ‘Privacy Improvement’ In Attempt To Distract And Confuse Users
It’s important to remember that search, video and mobile phone operating systems are not the products Google makes. You’re the product. Or rather the troves of data the search giant maintains on you and sells […]
Chinese Search Giant Baidu Is Launching A Major Offensive Against Google
In the battle for internet search domination, most people think of Google and only Google. But Chinese giant Baidu, effectively the Google of China, is incredibly large, equally profitable and has vast ambitions to move […]
Google’s Push Into TV Accelerates, Will Now Offer HBO Now On Chromecast
Google’s I/O 2015 developer conference saw some interesting announcements from the company, which we’ve profiled here and here. Perhaps one of the most interesting announcements came from Google’s de-facto CEO, Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai, […]
All The Photos You Upload To Google’s New Photos App Can Be Used By Google
Google’s new Photos app is a service that wants to “organize your memories.” But what Anil Sabharwal, head of Google Photos, didn’t tell you on Thursday is that all the photos you upload to Google’s […]
Google’s New Products Highlight Huge Problems With Apple’s Software
Yesterday Google announced a big update to its Google Now product, which will add contextualized information to every app on your phone. For example if Spotify is playing a song, simple asking your phone what […]
Google Launches Stealth Attack On Facebook With Free Unlimited High Res Photo Storage App
In a clever attack on privacy invading Facebook, Google announced on Thursday a new dedicated Photos app for Android, iOS and the web. It had hinted at this repeatedly over the past month but its […]
Google Is Now A Major Player In Television
At Google’s annual developer conference yesterday, Google I/O, Sundar Pichai, the most senior Google executive to actually speak with the public, revealed a stunning fact. act Google has sold 17 million Chromecast devices to customers […]
YouTube Is Going To Support Virtual Reality Videos By End Of Summer
As we covered previously, 2016 is poised to be the year of virtual reality. Big players, like Facebook, Conde Nast, Sony and Samsung are all lining to jump head first into the virtual reality arena. […]
Apple Readies Big Push Into Automotive Infotainment Systems
Apple looks to be intensifying efforts to own the automotive market, with chief operating officer Jeff Williams describing vehicles as “the ultimate mobile device”. The news comes on the back of an announcement yesterday from […]
GM To Offer Apple, Google Tech For In Car Nav Systems
Your car and phone are not going to be all the different in the near future – at least in terms of the computer systems that power them. Hot on the heels of Hyundai announcing […]
Google’s New Answer Engine Gamed To Spit Out Clearly Incorrect Answers
What happened to the dinosaurs? According to Google’s new answer engine: Dinosaur are used more than anything else to indoctrinate children and adults in the idea of millions of years of earth history. However the […]
Google, Twitter, Yahoo All Looking To Purchase Magazine App Flipboard
Twitter isn’t the only company that has expressed interest in acquiring news reading app Flipboard, reports The Wall Street Journal. Citing multiple unnamed sources, the publication claims that several other companies, including Google and Yahoo, […]
First Mass Produced Car Using Google’s Android On Sale Today
Just under a year after Google announced it was adapting its popular mobile phone operating system Android to act as a car operating system, the first vehicle using the software has gone on sale. The […]
Reports Indicate Apple Ready To Fight Google With Its Own Search Engine
Apple is notoriously tight-lipped. Nobody ever really knows what the company is going to announce until it actually does. Apple stuck to this trend when it recently announced the launch of “Applebot”, a web crawling […]
Snapchat Is Officially The World’s Fastest Growing Social Network
Snapchat is one of the few big social networks not owned by Facebook but that doesn’t make it small. Despite being fairly new the company is making waves in the battle for young eyeballs, according […]