Eric Schmidt, known unaffectionately in these parts as Eric T. Mole, has quietly ended his 19-year tenure at Google, where he was brought in to be…
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Disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down
Essential Products, an Android smartphone peddler founded by disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin is shutting down, the comnpany confirmed Wednesday…
Huawei wishes followers ‘Happy 2019’ in a tweet sent from a real Apple iPhone
China’s Huawei Technologies has punished two employees for New Year greetings…
Google’s Android platform exists as it does today because of Apple’s iPhone
This might be a difficult pill for hardcore Android fans to swallow…
How Google protected and paid off Andy Rubin, iPhone knockoff artist, from sexual misconduct allegations
Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Instead, the company handed him a $90 million exit package…
Why Google owes the European Union $5 billion
After the better part of three years’ investigation, the European Union has announced…
Google’s latest Android version tries to make Android phones more like Apple’s iPhone X
Google has a new version of Android coming to your phone with features…
Appeals court rules that Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights, orders trial on damages
A federal appeals court revived Oracle Corp.’s multibillion-dollar copyright infringement claims…
Facebook’s surveillance machine
Facebook’s business model involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg AWOL from Facebook’s damage control session
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain…
Apple iPhone pulling away from outclassed Android
Apple now has a double advantage in the smartphone war…
U.S. FTC reportedly probing Facebook’s abuse of personal data as UK summons Zuckerberg for questioning
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users…
Yet another Facebook debacle means it’s time for an Apple social network
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair…
The problem isn’t Cambridge Analytica: It’s Facebook
Cambridge Analytica garnered headlines across the world on Friday as Facebook formally suspended the company…
Essential sold fewer than 90,000 phones in its first six months
Essential, Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s new smartphone venture, had a rough go of it…
Google’s next Android version to mimic Apple’s iPhone X notch
Google is working on an overhaul of its Android mobile software for a new generation of smartphones…
Longtime Google engineer quits, saying the company is ‘100% competitor-focused’ and ‘can no longer innovate’
A Google engineer who just left the company after nearly 13 years criticized it Wednesday…
Eric Schmidt to step down as the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc.
Eric Schmidt will be stepping down as the executive chairman of Alphabet’s board of directors…
Andy Rubin takes leave from Essential as probe into ‘inappropriate’ Google relationship goes public
Essential founder and CEO Andy Rubin has taken a leave of absence from his new company for ‘personal reasons’ following a report…
U.S. judge orders new trial to decide how much Samsung owes Apple for copying iPhone
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California issued an order late on Sunday…
Ex-Google engineer founds religion to worship Artificial Intelligence
A Silicon Valley titan who helped create Google Street View and engineered Waymo and Uber’s self-driving cars…
In colossal screw up, Essential shared customers’ driver’s licenses over email
Last night, some customers who had preordered an Essential phone received an email asking for a copy…
At the start of the Trump era, Apple spent more on lobbying than ever, but outspent 2.5 times by Google
Since the election of President Donald Trump, Apple’s been been cultivating some good old fashioned Washington influence….
Protecting against possible ISP snooping by using a VPN and https
The Obama Administration created a new set of restrictions on Internet service providers…
Why Congress’s rejection of proposed FCC data rules will not affect your privacy in the slightest
Congress was right to disapprove them…
Privacy 101: Why you need a VPN
Earlier this week, the Republican-led Congress voted to repeal FCC rules that blocked ISPs…
SoftBank scraps $100 million investment in Android creator Andy Rubin’s ‘iPhone killer’ startup due to Apple pressure
SoftBank Group Corp. scrapped a planned $100 million investment in a smartphone startup…
Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android push towards two-OS smartphone world
iOS achieved continued growth across most regions tracked, except for Japan, Spain, and Urban China…
Apple CEO Cook and Google CEO Pichai spotted dining together at restaurant
While often made out to be fierce competitors, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai…
Google-parent Alphabet Inc. shares tumble as earnings miss estimates
Google-parent Alphabet reported quarterly earnings that missed analysts’ estimates on Thursday…
Apple v. Samsung lawsuit over iPhone patents officially reopened
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday reopened a longstanding patent lawsuit…
U.S. Supreme Court’s Apple v. Samsung ruling could change the landscape for design patent cases
The Supreme Court handed a huge victory to Samsung on Tuesday, tossing out nearly $400 million in damage…
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules for Samsung in Apple patent damages dispute; case sent back to lower court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled for Samsung in a dispute over damages related to Apple’s iPhone design…
Silicon Valley chiefs frozen out of President Trump’s White House
In President-elect Donald J. Trump’s newly named kitchen cabinet of business advisers, Wall Street is in. Silicon Valley is out…
Court denies Samsung bid for second appeal of $119.6 million iPhone slide-to-unlock patent verdict
The U.S. Court of Appeals has denied Samsung’s bid for a second re-hearing of the storied 2014 patent trial…
Under President Trump, Obama ally Google may face policy setbacks, including roll back of so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules
During Obama’s presidency, more than 250 people moved between jobs at Google or related firms and the federal government, national political campaigns and Congress…
Google’s Eric Schmidt wore staff badge at Hillary Clinton’s ‘victory’ party
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Inc., was spotted at Hillary Clinton’s ‘victory’ party last Tuesday wearing a staff badge…
President-elect Trump’s Android phone could be a national security crisis
If Trump is indeed using an Android device, he’s using a phone that the cybersecurity world broadly regards as significantly less secure than Apple’s iPhone…
WikiLeaks emails show extremely close relationship between Clinton campaign and Google’s Eric Schmidt
The emails between Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and campaign manager Robby Mook show that Schmidt met with Podesta…
Gloom falls over beleaguered Samsung as phone group faces lost bonuses and jobs
As beleaguered Samsung took the unprecedented step of killing off an entire generation of its smartphone after persistent problems with battery fires and explosions…
Why the U.S. Supreme Court asked if Apple’s iPhone design is like a Volkswagen Beetle
The Volkswagen Beetle took center stage as the Supreme Court argued about iPhones on Tuesday…
Seemingly frustrated U.S. Supreme Court hears Apple, Samsung patent case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared frustrated over how to resolve a high-stakes battle between…
