Rumours gaining traction 

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that Google is in the final stages of acquiring all or part of smartphone maker HTC.

C’mon you bastards, pay your tax like everyone else

France, Germany, Italy and Spain are expected to get tough with big US tech by demanding that they be taxed in Europe based on their revenues, rather than only profits.

Europe's top court will rule 

Tomorrow is a big day for huge US corporate tech as Europe's top court will rule whether US chipmaker Intel offered illegal rebates to squeeze out rivals in a judgement which will have a knock on effect on other similar cases.

Will make changes to avoid even bigger fine

Google has agreed to make changes to its search operations in a bid to avoid a huge EU fine.

AR meets reality distortion field  

It is a silly season for news and it seems that the Tame Apple Press is coming out with some daft pro-Apple stories to fill up the slack. Reuters has run a yarn claiming that Apple is going to take the AR market from Google. 

Thinking about sell offs to Google

Troubled HTC is exploring options that could range from separating its virtual reality business to a full sale of the company.

Zeus unimpressed that Google backed the losing side 

Google is set to disclose technical details of its new Titan computer chip which is a cloud computing security feature.

What is that which is coming out of its hands?

Google has decided that its next version of Android, codemamed Android O, will be named after an addictive biscuit which is packed full of things you should not touch.

Meet the Android 8.0 Oreo

Although the name has been rumored for quite some time, Google has now officially named its latest version of the Android, the Android 8.0 Oreo.

That's a nice little search engine we would hate for it to be broken

Google is shelling out billions of dollars in protection to the fruity tax-dodging cult Apple so that it can stay the default search engine on iPhones and iPads.