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On the same day Google CEO Larry Page spoke out against “negativity” in the tech industry, we’ve just come across an internal Microsoft video criticizing Google Chrome ‘Now Everywhere’ video. Larry Page said: “I’ve personally been quite sad at the industry’s behavior around all these things. If you take something as simple as IM, we’ve had an open offer to interoperate forever….Just this week Microsoft took advantage of that by interoperating with us. You can’t have people milking off of just one company.” ...

WhatsApp, the popular cross-platform instant messaging application for smart devices, is rumored to close to negotiating a landmark acquisition deal with Google. Sources reportedly close to the negotiations claim that Google is considering a whopping $1 billion dollars on the popular service had 200 million users, as of March 2013. DigitalTrends reports, “we’ve been told that WhatsApp is ‘playing hardball’ and jockeying for a higher acquisition price, which currently is ‘close to’ $1 billion right now.” ...

The wait is almost over. Samsung is set to finally unveil its next generation Samsung Galaxy S IV smarphone series on Thursday evening. If you want to watch the live stream of this heavily leaked phone event, bookmark this page. If all of the leaks are to be trusted, you would expect a device with 5-inch HD display, an eight-core processor (or a quad-core chipset in the U.S.), a 13-megapixel camera, up to 64GB of storage plus microSDXC support, 2GB of RAM and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. ...

The former Google executive, Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer just sent out a memo to all its full-time and part-time employees in the US of getting free smartphones including iPhone 5. This is part of the new program at Yahoo calling “Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun!”. The company is also going to pay the employees data and phone bills. [Credit] According to Business Insider, Yahoo employees have the option of choosing the phones from Apple, Samsung, Nokia and HTC. The list of smartphones include iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, or Nokia Lumia 920. These are the top phones on the market today and they will be replacing the BlackBerries that Yahoo employees were given up until this point. ...

We say this again and again - I am sure many of you who download apps from Apple App Store or Google Play or any other platform must have thought about it. Why should I pay 99 cents for this app? Is it really worth? But at the same time, when you visit your favorite coffee shop (Starbucks?) for a $7.15 coffee, you won’t think much about it. Why? Designer and software developer, Josh Lehman did a fantastic analysis on why people won’t pay $0.99 for apps, but will spend $7.15 for coffee. ...

In an official blog post, Google announced today that it’s adding its enhanced voice powered search to its ‘Search App’ for the iPhone and iPad. This update will include enhanced voice functionality which is similar to Google Now feature that’s already available for Jelly Bean users. This feature proved to give some prominent results in Android devices and now Google is bringing this feature to iPhones and iPads to kill Siri. ...

Today, Google announced the availability of 3D imagery for Google Earth on iOS devices. This much anticipated release is only available to iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and new iPad as rendering the polygons of Google’s 3D maps takes a lot of horsepower. According to release notes of the app update (as shown in the screenshot above), Google Earth for iOS version 7.0 now offers 3D imager and tour guide: ...

Popular third-party email genius client Sparrow has announced 20 minutes ago that it has been acquired by Google. The company tweeted on its official twitter page about the acquisition. Dom Leca, CEO of Sparrow posted on the Sparrow blog that the company has been acquired by Google, and that they’re joining the Gmail team to “accomplish a bigger vision.” We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! ...

Yesterday, Google’s first female engineer, Marissa Mayer, resigned. After spending 13 years at Google, she begins her career as Yahoo’s new CEO at the age of 37. She is ‘product focused’ and focused on the ‘user experience’. She is good at mentoring talent. At Google, she was responsible for Google’s popular products: the simple white search homepage, Gmail, Google News, and Google Images. [Credit] Not familiar with this newly appointmented CEO? Here are some of the interesting things to know about Marissa with some inputs from GeekSugar: ...

Here is a story of intelligent device meets intelligent device! Two individuals named G-Male and Siri meet and fall in love. What happens next? In this hilarious video (after this picture), you will find some guest appearances Blackberry, Yahoo, AOL, and more. Best part of this video: Siri: I trusted you!!! G-Male (Google): So does everyone. G-Male and Siri: A Love Story [Video]: And here is a bonus video for you to laugh: ...