Google agreed to buy part of HTC’s engineering and design teams for US$1.1bn, taking on a cadre of veterans that worked on the Pixel phone and could bolster its nascent hardware business. Google is taking on
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Google is close to acquiring assets from Taiwan’s HTC, according to a person familiar with the situation, in a bid to bolster the Internet giant’s nascent hardware business. By owning a manufacturer outright, Google could gain tighter
The big daddy of streaming music services finally looks set to launch in South Africa. The company has placed a job advertisement for a senior editor and music programmer for the local market. The ad, which
People in the US, not just in the European Union, are finally getting worried about tech sector leaders’ market dominance and the political power it confers. Unfortunately, the solutions gaining traction are the kind of anti-monopoly
If you believe the optimists, self-driving cars will dominate our roads within a couple decades. This will reduce or even eliminate such human-created ills as traffic jams and fatal accidents. I’m not so
Facebook is offering major record labels and music publishers hundreds of millions of dollars so the users of its social network can legally include songs in videos they upload, according to people familiar with the matter. The posting
Alphabet is forming a new holding company designed to finalise its evolution from Google, the Web search giant, into a corporate parent with distinct arms that protects individual businesses in far-flung fields like health
Google has had impressive augmented reality technology for years, but few ways to get millions of people using it. The company thinks it has software to fix that now. Tango, Google’s 3D mapping system launched as
Google faces a Tuesday deadline to tell the European Union how it plans to comply with an order to stop discriminating against rival shopping search services under threat of new fines that would add to a record €2.4bn
HTC is exploring its options. That’s exactly what the former smartphone high flyer should be doing. An adviser has been engaged and the Taiwan manufacturer is considering bringing in a strategic investor. A full or partial