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Google is releasing a new messaging app called Allo with its search and assistant baked in

Search goes into messaging.

Microsoft is getting further out of the phone business, while the Nokia brand is attempting a comeback

A new Finnish company is licensing the iconic phone brand and buying Microsoft's feature phone operation.

Here are three big areas to watch at Google I/O — and one big problem Google needs to solve

Drink every time you hear "machine learning."

You cannot be what you cannot see

In a new nationwide survey of African-Americans, a full half of respondents said they don't know a single person in their community who works in the technology industry.

Where are they now? Google's big I/O announcements, one year later

Following up on the winners and losers.

Meet the Google exec who's trying to beat Facebook in the mobile ad business

Here is Google's strategy to score app install ads.

The head of Google's enterprise apps business is jumping over to run its virtual reality business

Amit Singh moves from selling apps to shilling Cardboard.

Gboard is Google's new app to smuggle search into iPhones

You can even use it find that perfect GIF.

Google is delaying support for an Android rival to Apple's 3D Touch

The feature, originally expected for Android N, will have to wait for a future release.

Microsoft is sunsetting Sunrise, the mobile calendar app it bought last year

It'll disappear from app stores soon and stop working altogether at the end of August.

Google and Comcast may be following this tiny company into the world of Wi-Fi-first phones

At long last, Republic Wireless is adding more devices and a second carrier network.

Google is expanding its global accelerator, yet another of its startup funding programs

The Launchpad Accelerator adds Mexico to the mobile mix.

Google is putting out an Android phone case designed by Jeff Koons because it can

Making Nexus banal.

U.S. regulators want to know why your phone isn't getting security updates faster

The FCC and Federal Trade Commission are asking questions of operating system makers, smartphone manufacturers and wireless carriers.

Apple released an ad for Siri on the same day Siri creators debuted their better-than-Siri AI assistant

Siri won't let Viv steal the show.

Americans now have nearly as many smartphones as TVs

There are 2.4 smartphones per household, compared with 2.8 televisions.

Apple and SAP team up on iOS software at work

Apple has quietly built a $25 billion business of selling to large companies.

Gogo shows off in-flight Wi-Fi that isn't terrible

The satellite technology promises to move streaming Netflix from the banned list to reality.

Live concerts could be just the ticket for virtual reality

NextVR is teaming up with music promoter Live Nation to offer hundreds of concerts in virtual reality. Could this be the non-gaming experience the industry has been waiting for?

Mobile advertisers want to know exactly where you are. This company tells them.

Location specialist xAd reports a $250 million revenue run rate.

Mossberg: A smart new email app for the iPhone

Apple’s aging email app opens the door for another contender.

Scott McNealy is stepping down from the CEO job you didn't know he had

The former Sun Microsystems chief has been quietly running a Colorado-based social marketing company.

Sprint's CEO still thinks he can have one of the top two networks by next year

Marcelo Claure said he can both cut costs and close the gap with rivals.

Intel spent more than $10 billion to catch up in mobile. Then it gave up.

The chipmaker missed the smartphone and tablet markets but thought it could catch up if it just spent enough money. Last week it finally raised a white flag.