Vietnam's hit game developer pulls plug on Flappy BirdThe 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 February 2014
Google Doodle flies gay flag for Sochi OlympicsGoogle 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 February 2014
Internet titans shine light on secret US requestsInternet 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 February 2014
Google sheds Motorola in $2.91 bn deal with LenovoGoogle 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 January 2014
US, tech firms agree on spy agency data disclosureThe 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 January 2014
Samsung, Google sign patent-sharing dealSamsung 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 January 2014
Google apologizes after online services stumbleGoogle apologized Friday after the Internet giant's widely used free email and an array of other services were disrupted by apparent software woes.
25 January 2014
Facebook could fade out like a disease: researchersFacebook 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 January 2014
BlackBerry shares lifted by big Pentagon contractBlackBerry 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.
Google gets in game of Internet age storytellingThe Google lab behind augmented reality game "Ingress" is teaming with HarperCollins Publishers and top author James Frey for an Internet age adventure in storytelling.
Internet eyewear much in view at CES trade fairWhile 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.