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Gartner said during the second quarter, smartphones outsold feature phones for the first time.

A report from Digitimes said HTC would most likely "drift away" from Windows Phone so that it could focus on its Android smartphones.

Google would launch 'Google Impact Challenge in India' and award an Rs 3 crore worth about US$500,000 and technical assistance that would bring the winning projects into life.

According to analysts, banks are shifting to cloud computing since it could deliver innovation and cost cutback in banking.

According to the White House, US President Barack Obama met with tech executives along with transparency advocates to deliberate on the government's surveillance programs.

Nokia Corp accounted for 81% of all the Windows Phone shipments allowing Windows Phone to increase its market share to 3.7%.

Nuance Communications recorded its highest price since May after Carl Icahn reportedly increased his stake in the speech recognition software developer.

Microsoft's Windows Phone boosted its smartphone market share from 3% to 4% allowing it to take the third highest position in the market.

Android-powered smartphones continued to reign with its growing market share while iPhone and BlackBerry's sales plunged in the second quarter.

Demand Media's total revenue growth slowed to 9% to US$101.1 million due to changes at Google.

BlackBerry lost its third place position in a race for major smartphone platforms.

The US Court of Appeals renewed the patent claims that Apple filed against Google's Motorola Mobility.

Microsoft launched a new tool that would help it increase the number of apps in its mobile platform.

According to research firm Canalys, the shipments for Android-based tablets exceeded the consignments for iPads from Apple Inc in the second quarter.

Analysts said that Google's Moto X would not be enough to aid it in establishing a stronger presence in the growing smartphone market.