Google Announces Best Android Apps, Games for 2022; Apex Legends Mobile Named Best Game in India

Google Announces Best Android Apps, Games for 2022; Apex Legends Mobile Named Best Game in India

Google on Thursday revealed a list of the best apps and games available to download in the Google Play store in India in 2022. The annual update to Google’s top apps and games in the form of the Google Play Best of 2022 awards has picked Questt as the ‘Best…

Samsung Tipped to Work With Google, AMD on Advanced Chip for S-Series Phones

Samsung Tipped to Work With Google, AMD on Advanced Chip for S-Series Phones

Samsung Electronics has expanded its partnership with Google to bring a new chipset for its upcoming flagship smartphones, according to details shared by a tipster. In the coming years, Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets could get more powerful. The South Korean technology giant has been making Google’s Tensor chips that…

Oppo Smartphones Receive Jio 5G Support With New Update, All New Phones Will Support SA Network

Oppo Smartphones Receive Jio 5G Support With New Update, All New Phones Will Support SA Network

Oppo India has announced that most of its 5G phones have received software updates that support Reliance Jio’s standalone (SA) 5G network. Oppo has already rolled out software updates that make devices including Oppo Reno 8, Reno 8 Pro, Reno 7, Oppo F21 Pro 5G, Oppo F19 Pro+, Oppo K10,…

YouTube Shorts to Gain Shopping Features Amid Digital Ad Slowdown: Report

YouTube Shorts to Gain Shopping Features Amid Digital Ad Slowdown: Report

YouTube is bringing shopping features to its TikTok-like short-form video service, as it looks to diversify its revenue stream squeezed by falling ad spending, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Ad sales on Alphabet-owned YouTube slipped to $7.07 billion (roughly Rs. 57,300 crore) in the third quarter from $7.2 billion…

Google Pixel 8 Series to Reportedly Get New SoC Based on Exynos 2300, Codenames Leaked

Google Pixel 8 Series to Reportedly Get New SoC Based on Exynos 2300, Codenames Leaked

Google Pixel 7 series powered by the second-generation Tensor G2 SoC was unveiled last month, but rumours of next year’s Pixel models, speculated to be the Pixel 8 series, have started coming in. The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro are said to have “Shiba” and “Husky” as their internal…

Google, Facebook, Big Tech Should Pay for Network Costs, Suggest EU Telcos

Google, Facebook, Big Tech Should Pay for Network Costs, Suggest EU Telcos

Telecom operators are pushing the European Union to implement new laws that would make Big Tech pay for network costs, following Australia’s example, according to four sources close to the matter. Europe’s telecoms operators have lobbied for a financial contribution from US tech firms such as Alphabet‘s Google, Meta‘s Facebook and…

Google Lens Icon Added to Search Homepage, Street View App Reportedly Shutting Down in 2023

Google Lens Icon Added to Search Homepage, Street View App Reportedly Shutting Down in 2023

The Google Lens icon will prominently feature on the Google Search homepage from now on, the search giant has announced. Meanwhile, a recent report claims that Google plans to discontinue its Street View app in March 2023. Google Street View app allows users to take 360-degree views of almost any…

YouTube to Certify Health Care Providers’ Channels to Curb Misinformation Among 2 Billion Users

YouTube to Certify Health Care Providers’ Channels to Curb Misinformation Among 2 Billion Users

YouTube said on Thursday that doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can apply to have their YouTube channels certified, in a push to limit misinformation on the site. The change will allow viewers to more easily access videos containing “high-quality health information,” YouTube said. “This is a big step…

Google Admits Slump in Digital Assets Market Has Axed Ad Business

Google Admits Slump in Digital Assets Market Has Axed Ad Business

Google has acknowledged that crypto winter has negatively impacted the advertisement business. During its earnings call, Google’s parent company Alphabet said that the search engine giant registered merely six percent growth from ad revenues in the last quarter that ended in September. This figure is the lowest recorded by Google…