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hooluupigon Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware

FYI,Samsung's tvs and watches are running Tizen instead of Android.

hooluupigon ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale

The 2 billion is the number of devices with the Play Store. Android devices in China do not have Google Play Store or Services on them. So devices in China do not factor into this number.

hooluupigon Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

I disapprove of what you say,but i defend to the death your right to say it.Do you still remember 'Don't be evil'?SHAME ON YOU,GOOGLE.

hooluupigon Jeff Bezos Escapes Scrutiny from His Own Paper–and Its Rivals

Twitter is different from facebook.Snap is not and will never be a facebook alternative(vice versa).Because social network is not just client software but relationships.You can easily replace facebook/whatsapp with snapchat or whatever you like,but how do you persuade your friends and relatives to do that?If none of your friends use the alternatives,you have to reuse facebook.

hooluupigon Amazon possibly working on new stand-alone messaging app called Anytime

If you take a look at what wechat has done in china,you will get the answer.More and more people there are shopping,making payments via wechat pay instead of alipay,watching news through wechat news instead of other news sites,searching keywords through wechat search instead of baidu and doing almost everything in wechat.WeChat is a growing threat to other IT companies in china.In fact,alibaba has already tried several times to make a successful messaging platform but fails repeatedly(just like Google's messaging mess). If facebook move in WeChat's direction,it will be a huge threat to amazon.Please excuse for my bad English as i am not a native speaker.

hooluupigon Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google

They are just themes of safari.