Tag Archives: Google

We’ve heard rumors earlier this year that Google was planning to buy video streaming platform Twitch and make it part of Youtube. The deal has apparently been confirmed recently and the price is $1 billion, just as it was previously believed. The acquisition wasn’t actually announced by either of the parties involved, but multiple news outlets are reporting that Twitch investors have ...

It has been a year since Chromecast has been launched by Google and the giant decided to celebrate the occasion by giving away free all access passes to Chromecast subscribers that are available until September 30th. The all access passes refer to Google Play Music and are available from today in the U.S.  But, like anything that comes free of ...

Good news HTC fans. The company has just confirmed that the unlocked version of the HTC One M8 will indeed be getting Android KitKat 4.4.3 support later this week, with the new OTA rolling out towards the weekend. This will be the final update HTC does for the One M8 before Android L is out, so this also means that ...

The Google Now Launcher, which has so far been available only for the Nexus family, has now become the built-in launcher of future ZTE devices. The first device to have the Google Now Launcher available is the Blade Vec 4G by ZTE. The device will be running Android 4.4 pre-loaded with the Google Now Launcher and sets the stage for ...

The European Commission has released its findings into an investigation into in-app purchases that began in February. According to the European Commission games should no longer be advertised as free if they contain any type of microtransaction or in-game purchase. They should also not attempt to exhort children into buying items and adequately inform customers about payment arrangements. Another rule ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson, a U.S. civil rights advocate has begun pressuring Twitter to follow in the footsteps of Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Yahoo, to release its employee diversity data, claiming that blacks were underrepresented in the tech community based on racial discrimination rather than on skills and abilities. Jackson has founded The Rainbow Push Coalition, a black empowerment group, with ...

Creating customizable modular smartphones is probably Google’s most ambitious and interesting project. Called Project Ara, Google’s attempt to bring modular smartphones to the market is now one step closer to reality, because the tech giant has recently announced its intentions to give Project Ara to developers. Google has already accepted some applications from developers, who are more than interested in ...

Thinking about picking up a Google Nexus 5? Well, now might be a good time. The phone was never extremely expensive to begin with, but the Google Nexus 5 just got cheaper on Ebay. If you want to pick one up, you can do so now for a measly $334.99 on the 16 GB Nexus 5, and $379.99 on the ...

Over 12,000 old concert videos from some of the biggest bands in history are now available on YouTube thanks to a collaboration with Music Vault. While the video streaming service previously hosted around 1000 live concert performances, this new agreement multiplies that number tenfold to allow users to get see some of the rarest performances that cannot be viewed anywhere ...

Avast, the security software company known for their anti-virus program, has revealed how much personal information can be retrieved from Android phones that have been factory reset. During a research project the company bought a number of smartphones from eBay and were able to access highly personal information despite the fact that all of the devices had been factory reset ...