Google specializes in internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Beyond its core search engine, Google offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS for its netbook offering, Chromebook. Its mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
RunKeeper, a popular exercise tracking app for Android and iOS, quietly announced in November it would support the dedicated GPS in Android Wear watches. After providing the function to beta testers… Read more »
After focusing so strongly on flagship handsets like the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4, Samsung is watching its top-selling smartphone crown start to slip. The company has always offered a… Read more »
If you want to buy a car that gets all of its entertainment, navigation and other data directly from Google, you may have your wish in the next year or two. Citing… Read more »
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Hampton Creek, a San Francisco startup that uses advanced data analysis to develop eco-conscious, egg-free food products, has raised a $90 million series C round of venture from a collection of big-name… Read more »
Cardboard, Google’s virtual reality hobby that first launched as a kind of gag gift at its developers conference this year, has been making strides in the past month with new SDKs… Read more »
The latest Lumia phone in India is available for pre-orders exclusively though the region’s Amazon site. Microsoft is selling the Lumia 638 — a variant of the previously released Lumia 635… Read more »
Google will try to persuade a federal judge in San Jose, California on Thursday that its Android agreements, which requires Samsung and other phone makers to include products like Google Search and… Read more »