Gmail is Google’s 7th service to hit 1-bn user mark
02 Feb 2016
Gmail follows six other Google products — Android, Chrome, Maps, Search, YouTube and the Google Play Store — each of which currently has a billion plus users, says CEO Sundar Pichai
Alphabet pips Apple as world’s most valuable firm
02 Feb 2016
Google’s holding company Alphabet has shown the result of financial tightening under new CFO Ruth Porat by beating Apple in market value during after-hours trading on Monday though its grip on the top spot is tenuous and could change again today
Secret Google project to deliver 5G internet via drones
30 Jan 2016
Google’ Project Skybender is located in a small town in New Mexico, where it is developing drone-based technology that could deliver internet at 40 times the speed of current 4G LTE network systems
Google to pay £130 mn in UK back taxes
25 Jan 2016
Google paid Apple $1 bn to be default search bar in 2014
22 Jan 2016
Court documents from Oracle's copyright lawsuit against Google reveal that the internet search giant paid around $1 billion to Apple in 2014 for making its search bar the default option on iOS
Google-Lenovo to launch Tango smartphone at $500
08 Jan 2016
Google’s much-awaited Project Tango will finally hit stores as a $500 Lenovo smartphone, the two companies announced at the ‘CES in 2016’ in Las Vegas on Thursday
