The European competition commission is gearing up to charge Google with giving unfair prominence to its own apps…
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Apple’s Safari is the world’s second most popular web browser
Apple’s device count of Mac, iPhone, and iPad now exceeds more than 1 billion devices…
Apple could be moving their iCloud servers in-house
China-based server brand vendor Inspur has been rumored to have entered Apple’s datacenter supply chain…
Report: Apple designing its own servers to avoid snooping
Apple has begun designing its own servers partly because of suspicions that hardware is being intercepted before…
Google is making a keyboard for Apple iPhones and iPads
Google has been developing a third-party keyboard for iOS that would put the company’s search engine…
Apple’s move to bring iCloud infrastructure in-house predicated by backdoor fears
Apple’s multi-year effort to develop its own servers and networking hardware has reportedly been driven…
Inside ‘Project McQueen,’ Apple’s plan to build its own cloud
For the past several months, Apple has been working on ‘Project McQueen,’ a plan to become…
Apple’s deal with Google for cloud services may not last
In its bid to raise its name in cloud computing services, Google nabbed a big-name customer…
Apple signs on with Google Cloud Platform, cuts spending with Amazon Web Services
Alphabet’s Google has quietly scored a major coup in its campaign to become an enterprise cloud computing powerhouse…
Apple News opens the floodgates
The News app, which is baked into the iOS software that powers iPhones and iPads, aggregates news sources into one feed…
Google’s Eric Schmidt is joining the Pentagon’s new ‘innovation board’
The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, now executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet, is about to start helping the U.S. military…
Apple shares on biggest win streak since September
Apple (AAPL) was able to retake its 50-day line and the 100 price level on Tuesday…
How Apple could improve their News app and turn it into an industry leader
There’s a lot of potential in News. With a few tweaks, it could become it could become the best in its field — and maybe even save the industry…
Apple discourages Supreme Court from hearing Samsung patent petition, calls case ‘legally unexceptional’
Apple this week attempted to dissuade the U.S. Supreme Court from hearing Samsung’s request for review…
Apple plans to offer subscription content through Apple News app
Apple Inc is working to make subscription content available through its News app…
Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 for default search on iPhone and iPad
Google Inc. is paying Apple Inc. a hefty fee to keep its search bar on iOS…
Alphabet Inc. close to snatching Apple’s crown as the world’s most valuable company
Apple has been considered the world’s most valuable company since 2013 when it surpassed Exxon Mobil…
Apple gets a sales ban on patent-infringing Samsung phones
In the latest round of the Apple v. Samsung patent war, US District Judge Lucy Koh on Monday granted an Apple motion for permanent injunction against devices…
Google urges U.S. Supreme court overturn Apple v. Samsung patent infringement ruling
Google has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Samsung’s appeal of its patent loss to Apple over the copying of iPhone technology…
Google Android’s VP of design says Apple’s iPhone interface is ‘heavy and burdensome’
Google’s Matias Duarte has a problem. In the next ten years he wants to replace the computer on your desk and the phone in your pocket…
Apple gets much more bang for its R&D buck than Google and other tech companies
Steve Jobs said in 1998 that “innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have.”
Toyota plans U.S. artificial intelligence research with focus on self-driving cars
Toyota’s new firm, which plans to hire about 200 staff, aims to accelerate research and development in artificial intelligence…
Alphabet Inc.’s Google looks to copy Apple yet again
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is apparently looking at ways to exert more control, Apple-style, of Android smartphones by…
Apple reaffirms its superpower over Google’s ‘Fragmandroid’
Once more, Apple has shown its superpower in the ability to keep the mobile platform fresh, while Google’s Android OS continues to be hampered…
Alphabet’s Google to merge Chrome OS Android
Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system for personal computers into its Android mobile operating system…
Alphabet, formerly Google, sets share buyback, shares surge
Alphabet Inc., introduced its first share buyback and beat Wall Street’s profit forecast…
Publishers caught in the middle of Apple-Google, App-Web divide
Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps…
Ad-blockers prompt IAB to admit ‘we messed up’; launch L.E.A.N. Ads program
We messed up. As technologists, tasked with delivering content and services to users, we lost track of the user experience…
AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages are Google’s response to ad blockers and news apps like Apple News
Google now sees more people searching the Web on smartphones than on desktops and laptops…
Porsche chooses Apple Car Play over Android Auto because of Google’s rampant data collection demands
So much for “Do No Evil.” As part of the agreement an automaker would have to enter with Google, certain pieces of data must be collected and mailed back to Alphabet Inc…
New Google parent company Alphabet Inc. drops ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto
Alphabet, which took over as Google’s new holding company on Friday…
Google turns into ‘Alphabet’
Get ready to start calling Google by its new name, Alphabet…
Google reorganizes under new corporate umbrella Alphabet Inc.
Google Inc. is changing its corporate structure to separate its search…