Acquisition possible before end of year

In a recent turn of events on Friday, Google and Salesforce have made offers to acquire San Francisco-based social media giant Twitter to an estimated sum of $30 billion.

Rats

Google’s new messaging app, Allo, is so snoopy that it might have to pay the Peanuts artist’s estate royalties.

Built by HTC, launching with Android 7.1

Google recently released a short preview on YouTube indicating it will be launching two new flagship smartphone devices on October 4th in San Francisco.

Now Indonesia pursues Google over tax

Google faces a big tax bill from the Indonesian government.

7-inch screen and 4GB of RAM

According to the latest rumor, Google's Huawei-made 7-inch tablet will be released before the end of this year.

A good idea shelved

Search engine outfit Google has mothballed a rather good idea to create modular mobile phones which allow parts to be updated when new tech comes available,

Xperia... Sony has heard about the English language....

Following most other smartphone manufacturers which have released partial lists of devices that will be graced with Google's latest Android 7.0 Nougat OS, Sony has also "unveiled" its own negligee like list of devices.

Only for Daydream believers

Bloomberg claims that Google will be launching its Daydream VR platform in a few weeks.

“Seamless updates” only for new devices

Earlier this week, Google released the first over-the-air updates of its fresh Android 7.0 N operating system to owners of a Nexus 5, 5X, 6, 6P, 9, Nexus Player, General Mobile 4G or Pixel C tablet. But the operating system will support one key new feature exclusively given to the company’s upcoming Nexus smartphone devices, at least for now.

To plenty of Nexus devices

As we said before, Google's Android 7.0 Nougat has now started to roll out to supported devices.