The partnership will also see the two parties cooperate on technology initiatives, including development of affordable smartphones.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday ordered a detailed probe against internet giant Google for alleged unfair business practices with respect to Google Pay as well as Google Play's payment system. Google Pay is a popular digital payments platform while Google Play is the app store on its Android ecosystem.
The aim is a vast improvement in quality that would lead to a surge in demand for low-end Android phones
Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple and Google failed to persuade a US judge to sign off on a $324.5 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by tech workers, who accused the firms of conspiring to avoid poaching each other's employees.
Motorola is betting that low-cost smartphones can provide the spark to rekindle its struggling business, even as the company's ownership by Google Inc will force it to sit out of China, the world's largest smartphone market.
It has a feature which instantly brings up a video chat with a tech-support representative who can tell a user how to operate the device.
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showcased smartphones, tablets, 3D- and Internet-enabled TVs that are expected to make the biggest splash in 2011.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and retiring Chief Executive Steve Ballmer are standing for re-election to Microsoft Corp's board of directors, despite recent moves by some investors to reduce their influence.
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The Modi government's response to infiltration at the India-Pakistan border, Kumar Vishwas told Google staff, was weak, adding that there had been 19 infiltration attempts and ceasefire violations by Pakistan since the new government took charge.
Nokia will unveil a low-cost smartphone running a version of Google Inc's Android operating system, despite the company's close partnership with Microsoft Corp and its competing Windows system, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple Inc launched the technology that it promises will better protect devices from criminals and snoopers seeking access.
Investors want to see evidence that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 8-year-old company is delivering on promises to develop a full-fledged mobile advertising business.
It's a twist that is sure to have some telecom bosses in Barcelona gritting their teeth.
Lenovo Group, the Chinese technology company that earns about 80 percent of its revenue from personal computers, is betting it can also be a challenger to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc in the smartphone market.
Alphabet Inc's Google has paid Rs 33,737 crore for a 7.73 per cent stake in Reliance Industries Ltd's (RIL) digital subsidiary, Jio Platforms Ltd, joining the list of global investors such as Facebook, billionaire Mukesh Ambani's firm said. The transaction also marks the US technology giant's biggest-ever investment in an Indian company. With this, Jio Platforms has raised a total of Rs 1.52 lakh crore by selling nearly 33 per cent stake to 13 financial and strategic investors in just 11 weeks.
Possible higher dividend, capital gains taxes weigh.
Microsoft executives feel they needed to keep pace with the growing popularity of smaller tablets like Google Inc's 7-inch Nexus and the 7.9-inch iPad Mini.
If Android One succeeds, it will only cement Pichai's so-called position as the most powerful man in the mobile world.
The latest whistle-blower revelations of multiple shenanigans at global ride-hailing app Uber, coming thick and fast after serial exposes of various dodgy practices at Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google in the recent past raises uncomfortable questions about India Inc. If the FAANGs, Twitter and Uber can be guilty of multiple and diverse transgressions what's happening in Indian corporations? It can be nobody's case that India's largely family-owned and - managed private sector is a beacon of transparency or best corporate governance practices, bolstered as it is by an informal omerta among employees, managements and even boards.
In EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has kickstarted the long-pending anti-trust investigation into Google, the internet search giant may have finally met its match.
Tony Sanfilippo is of two minds when it comes to Google Inc.'s ambitious programme to scan millions of books and make their text fully searchable on the Internet.
The blacklisting of Wikipedia comes days after the Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) degraded Wikipedia services for 48 hours, threatening to block it if the content deemed 'blasphemous' was not deleted.
The two apps had drawn millions of downloads in India as border tensions between India and China surged.
It comes a week after new Chief Executive Satya Nadella unveiled new versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel applications for Apple Inc's iPad.
Among all types of phones, Micromax ranks third in India after Nokia and Samsung Electronics.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed Facebook and Google to remove alleged derogatory material related to Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sasikala Pushpa who claimed that her image was being tarnished by purported morphed photos and videos with a man on social media.
The Bombay high court on Wedneday issued notices to the Centre, Maharashtra government and others on the petition seeking removal of the controversial anti-Islam film `The Innocence of Muslims' from the Internet.
With acquisitions the internet giant is trying to increase its presence in smartphones and tablets.
Reader Girish spotted Orkut Buyukkokten Founder of Orkut.com at Google Inc, Mountain View, California in January 2008.
Many app makers have stopped work on their projects or abandoned them, mostly because of the lack of customers or limitations of the device.
Last Friday, technology giant Apple, in a massive victory in its patent case against Samsung, won more than $1 billion after a jury in California found that the South Korean firm violated Apple's patents related to the software and design of mobile devices.
Internet giant Google has acquired Slide, maker of applications for social networking websites that allow users to create and share virtual activities and goods.
"We are delighted to welcome Google as a strategic investor in Jio Platforms. We have signed a binding partnership and an investment agreement under which Google will invest Rs 33,737 crores for a 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms," Mukesh Ambani said at the company's annual general meeting.
"Executives at both Facebook and Google, among other companies, have held low-level talks with those at Twitter Inc in recent months to explore the prospect of an acquisition of the messaging service," The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
The Android OS from Google Inc is fast gaining popularity over other platforms like the Apple's iOS4, Nokia's Symbian, Microsoft's Windows and Samsung's Bada. As more and more developers get weaned away to the Android platform because of the versatility it offers, we present five fun must-have Android games for you in 2010.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered authorities to unblock Wikipedia "with immediate effect", days after the country's telecommunications watchdog banned the online encyclopedia for its failure to remove offensive and blasphemous content.
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai received a grant for 273,328 Class C Google stock units.
Google Inc. founder-director Kavitark Ram Shriram and Bose Corporation Chairman Amar Gopal Bose have both moved up the rankings in the list of Forbes' 400 Richest Americans.
When Internet search major Google Inc decided to power its 'Googleplex' in Mountain View with one of the largest solar panel installations in the world last year, it was a big vote for solar energy, which presently provides less than 1 per cent of the energy generated worldwide.
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