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The Vietnamese developer behind the smash-hit free game Flappy Bird has pulled his creation from online stores after announcing that its runaway success had ruined his "simple life".

• 10 февраля 2014, 16:17

Google marked the Winter Games in Sochi by flying the gay flag in a search page Doodle that linked to a call for equality in the Olympic Charter.

• 07 февраля 2014, 10:33

Internet titans eager to regain the trust of users for the first time on Monday provided insight into numbers of secret requests for user data made by the US government.

• 04 февраля 2014, 10:59

Google agreed Wednesday to sell Motorola to Chinese tech giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, after a lackluster two-year effort to turn around the smartphone maker it bought for $12.5 billion.

• 30 января 2014, 10:29

The United States agreed to give technology firms the ability to publish broad details of how their customer data has been targeted by US spy agencies.

• 28 января 2014, 16:37

Samsung said Monday it had signed a long-term cross-licence deal with Google in a move to help the South Korean technology firm stave off potential patent disputes in the future.

• 27 января 2014, 11:23

Google apologized Friday after the Internet giant's widely used free email and an array of other services were disrupted by apparent software woes.

• 25 января 2014, 12:10

Facebook is like an infectious disease, experiencing a spike before its decline, according to US researchers who claim the social network will lose 80 percent of users by 2017.

• 23 января 2014, 12:19

BlackBerry shares leapt more than nine percent Tuesday as the troubled Canadian smartphone maker got a boost from news of contract to supply the US military with 80,000 new handsets.

• 22 января 2014, 14:10

A US woman thought to be the first person to get a traffic ticket for wearing Google Glass was found not guilty Thursday.

• 17 января 2014, 14:50

The Google lab known for working on unusual projects like self-driving cars is crafting a contact lens that could help diabetics manage blood sugar levels.

• 17 января 2014, 11:54

The Google lab behind augmented reality game "Ingress" is teaming with HarperCollins Publishers and top author James Frey for an Internet age adventure in storytelling.

• 17 января 2014, 10:16

Google on Monday announced that it is buying smart thermostat start-up Nest in a deal valued at $3.2 billion.

• 15 января 2014, 11:22

Motorola announced Tuesday that its flagship Moto X smartphone is heading for Europe.

• 15 января 2014, 10:18

Google apologised Friday after a major square in Berlin regained its Nazi-era name "Adolf Hitler" on its popular online Maps page for a few hours.

• 12 января 2014, 17:33

While many of the digital glitterati thronging this week's Consumer Electronics Show were wearing Google's new Internet glasses, rival online eyewear products abounded among the trade stands.

• 11 января 2014, 10:01

The robots are coming, and they're here to help.

• 09 января 2014, 11:24

A new smartphone operating system developed by a global collaboration of tech firms to rival Google's Android and Apple's iOS will be launched in the next few months.

• 09 января 2014, 10:57

Brush smarter. That's the message from the makers of what is billed as the world's first Internet-connected toothbrush.

• 06 января 2014, 10:52

The Authors Guild is appealing a US judge's decision in a long-running case that cleared legal obstacles for Google's massive book-scanning project, court documents showed Monday.

• 31 декабря 2013, 15:45