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The Google versus Apple text message feud refuses to die down. Now, the Alphabet Inc.-owned (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOG) company has released a new "iPager" commercial that mocks Apple for showing messages from Android in green bubbles. What Happened: Google has been trying to pressure Apple Inc. (...

Meta Platform Inc.'s (NASDAQ: META) WhatsApp head Will Cathcart targeted telecom companies through a series of tweets on Friday. What Happened: Cathcart drew comparisons between WhatsApp and SMS. He said, unlike SMS, “messages sent on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted to...

“If you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em,” seems to be Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ: FB)’s position regarding messaging. The social media giant is set to swallow up traditional text messaging by making the option for old-school messaging available in the Messenger app,...

Along with the arrival of the highly anticipated Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Nexus 5 smartphone Thursday came news of the equally anticipated Android 4.4 KitKat operating system. While KitKat (the OS, not the candy bar after which it was named) is loaded onto the Nexus 5, it is not yet available for...

It seems almost fitting that the oft-rumored mysterious ghostly apparition of a smartphone known as Nexus 5 actually left the spirit world and became real on Halloween. Underwritten by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and built by LG, the new device became available Thursday, unsubsidized, for $349 from...