creator tweets about flappy bird resurrection

Creator tweets about ‘Flappy Bird’ resurrection

Vietnamese app developer Nguyen Ha Dong, the creator of once most-downloaded game ‘Flappy Bird’, said on his Twitter account on Wednesday that he will resurrect his app for both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms with a revamp.
google viacom settle youtube copyright suit

Google, Viacom settle YouTube copyright suit

Google and Viacom announced a settlement Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit claiming the Internet giant's YouTube video-sharing site promoted copyright infringement.
yahoo spurns facebook and google sign in credentials

Yahoo spurns Facebook and Google sign-in credentials

Yahoo has confirmed that it will stop letting people sign into its online services using credentials from rival Internet titans Facebook or Google.
upstarts challenge reign of googles android

Upstarts challenge reign of Google's Android

A small band of upstarts is chipping away at Google's mighty Android, hoping one day to overthrow the system that runs eight in 10 smartphones sold worldwide.
nokia makes android smartphone despite microsoft bid

Nokia makes Android smartphone despite Microsoft bid

Nokia showed off Monday a new range of smartphones powered by Google's Android operating system, even as it is being taken over by Microsoft.
samsung launches new smart watch gear 2

Samsung launches new smart watch, Gear 2

Samsung launched on Sunday a new smart watch, the Gear 2, after a first version won over few critics, adding new features and ditching Google's Android in favour of its own operating system.
firefox aims to power us 25 smartphone

Firefox aims to power US$25 smartphone

Firefox OS, an upstart smartphone operating system aimed at challenging the Apple and Google duopoly, will power a new category of $25 smartphones for developing countries, the California-based nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said on Sunday.
google buys firm to stem online fraud

Google buys firm to stem online fraud

Google said it was buying the British-based startup spider.io for its technology to weed out fraud in online advertising.
games copying flappy bird threatened to be blocked from stores

Games copying Flappy Bird threatened to be blocked from stores

Games with “flappy” in the title have been blocked from Apple’s iOS and Google’s Play stores, and the developers of such games were asked to rename them.
sound based login startup joins google tech chorus

Sound-based login startup joins Google tech chorus

An Israel-based startup specialising in using sounds instead of passwords for logging in has said that it has been bought by Google.
motorola chief departs for dropbox

Motorola chief departs for Dropbox

The head of Google-owned Motorola, Dennis Woodside, has announced he is leaving the smartphone maker to become chief operating officer at Dropbox.
android extends gains on apple

Android extends gains on Apple

The Google Android system extended its gains over Apple's iPhone globally in the last quarter of 2013, and Windows Phone grabbed the number three market position, a survey showed on Wednesday.
most downloaded flappy bird game to be removed

Most-downloaded Flappy Bird game to be removed

Nguyen Ha Dong, the Vietnamese creator of mobile game Flappy Bird which recently topped the App Store and Google Play Store charts, announced on Twitter he will remove the game from the two stores on Monday.
google buys 594 stake in lenovo

Google buys 5.94% stake in Lenovo

Google bought a 5.94 per cent stake in Lenovo for $750 million on the same day it agreed to sell handset maker Motorola to the Chinese technology giant, a report said Friday.
vietnamese made game tops app store google play store

Vietnamese-made game tops App Store, Google Play Store

Mobile game Flappy Bird, which is developed by Vietnamese programmer Nguyen Ha Dong, has topped the App Store and Google Play Store charts after making its way to the top 10 lists of the two electronic stores for about a month.