Xiaomi, Huawei, and BBK come together to create a Google Play Store alternative

Chinese smartphone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Huawei Business Group, Oppo, and Vivo, are coming together to create a Play store alternative of sorts, to end Google’s monopoly in this space. According to Reuters, the four companies are creating the Global Developer Service Alliance (GDSA) as a […]

Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenues with 152M monetizable daily active users

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Maps, AI, Ads, and Ambient Navigation

Immediately available, however, is Google’s re-emphasized augmented reality mode. The company first showed off “Live View” at its software developer conference in 2018 and started rolling it out in 2019. The feature itself hasn’t changed much—hold up your phone and arrows appear within the camera […]