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More rumours point to WhatsApp once again being in talks to be acquired, this time according to a report from Digital Trends (via AppleInsider). The site notes the popular cross-platform messaging app is in negotiations with Google on determining prices for an acquisition: Messaging app WhatsApp is in the negotiating phase over prices with Google in what...

Google has announced it will no longer be using the WebKit rendering engine to power Google Chrome. Rather, the company will soon launch Blink, a new rendering engine based on WebKit that will be open source: However, Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has...

"Hide your kids, hide your wife…" Google has announced they have planned to shut down their video streaming service tomorrow as the following video announces it's "time to pick a winner". YouTube says it has been one giant video contest all along, and one winner will be picked and revealed in a decade in 2023,...

According to a new report by Droid-Life, Google's upcoming unified chat service will be called “Babel". This new cross-platform service is expected to merge services like Google Voice, Google Talk, and Google+ Messenger, and will be released for Android, iOS, Chrome, G+ and Gmail. The report also claims that the service was previously being referred to as “Babble”, but...

The competition in the app industry is already hot: In an interesting turn of events, Google is ahead of Apple in the App Store as the top publisher, according to App Annie's latest app index. (more…)

Google+ for iOS has received a major update to bring photo editing such as filters and rotate and crop features. There's also a new profile design, notifications tray and easier setup for new users. The full change log is below: What's New in Version 4.3.0 - New photo editing features: add filters, rotate and crop...

Previously, Apple has been rumoured to have a team of 100 people working on a smart watch and more recently, a Samsung executive has admitted that the company too is working on a watch device with capabilities similar to a smartphone. Now, The Financial Times is reporting that Google's Android unit is working on a smart watch,...

The Wall Street Journal reports more shuffling is coming at the executive level at Google. Yesterday the company's CEO explained Android head Andy Rubin was stepping down. Now, the executive in charge of Google Maps and the commerce division, Jeff Huber, is going to also step down: Google Inc. executive Jeff Huber stepped aside as head...

Google Now is the virtual assistant that's long been accessible for Android users, but according to Engadget, the following alleged leaked promo video for the iOS version was uploaded to YouTube then subsequently pulled. How the iOS version of Google Now would work is to just simply swipe up from the main screen within the...

Google today announced their new Chromebook Pixel, their latest notebook offering: Today we’re excited to announce our newest laptop—the Chromebook Pixel—which brings together the best in hardware, software and design to inspire the next generation of Chromebooks. With the Pixel, we set out to rethink all elements of a computer in order to design the...

The 14th Annual Harris Poll Reputation Quotient Study, which measures various dimensions that comprise reputation and influence consumer behaviour, has revealed that technology is the most reputable industry in corporate America. According to the 2013 poll, Amazon, Apple, The Walt Disney Company, Google and Johnson & Johnson are the top 5 companies with the best...

Analyst Scott Devitt at Morgan Stanley has reported that Apple is charging almost $1 billion each year from Google for making it the default search engine on iOS devices (via Business Insider). While some analysts have previously estimated that Apple has a revenue sharing deal with Google on iOS search, Devitt believes Apple would rather has a fee...