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Google Adds New Safety and Security Features With Android 17 Rollout

June 16, 2026
Google, Android updates, smartphones
Google Faces New EU Pressure to Give AI Rivals Android Access
News // April 23, 2026

The European Commission is preparing to outline steps it wants Google to take to allow competitors’ artificial intelligence (AI) assistants to access features in the operating system of Android handsets, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 23), citing unnamed sources. The demands will be part of the Commission’s effort...

Google May Offer Publishers More Options to Control AI’s Use of Content
News // January 28, 2026

Google faces potential new regulations covering its search services in the United Kingdom and, in separate news, reportedly agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit in the United States involving its operating system for smartphones. Potential measures announced Wednesday (Jan 28) would see the U.K.’s Competition and...

Perplexity Releases Android Version of Comet Browser, Says iOS Version Coming Soon
Artificial Intelligence // November 20, 2025

Perplexity’s artificial intelligence-powered browser, Comet, is now available in a mobile version. The company has released the first mobile version of the browser, Comet Android, and will release an iOS version within days, Perplexity Co-founder, President and CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a Thursday (Nov....

Google Beats Apple in Smartphone AI Race
Artificial Intelligence // August 20, 2025

Apple is behind Google in the race to add artificial intelligence (AI) features to smartphones, according to Wall Street Journal Personal Tech Columnist Nicole Nguyen. An iPhone user, Nguyen wrote Wednesday (Aug. 20) that her experience with Google’s upcoming Pixel 10 showed that Google has...

Interviews & Exclusives
Cooperating AI Agents Could Redefine How Consumers Shop and Sell

December 02, 2024
A new venture aiming to connect AI services across platforms could transform everyday commerce by letting virtual shopping agents compare prices, schedule deliveries and handle customer service across multiple retailers and websites. The vision of /dev/agents, which just landed $56 million in funding at a $500 million valuation, points to a future where artificial intelligence (AI) […]

Worldpay: ‘Future-Proofing’ The POS

April 17, 2018
The next big thing is not often easy to spot. Sometimes, the thing that everyone sees coming fails to actually show up. Need proof? Check out the PYMNTS/InfoScout mobile wallet...

Samsung Takes The #1 Smartphone Spot — As The Apple Machine Spins Up

August 10, 2017
A year can make a big difference to a corporate storyline. This time last year, battery issues in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 created a series of unfortunate problems that resulted...

PayPal And Android Pay Team Up To Take On Digital Payments

April 18, 2017
“How can you compete?” That was the big question that PayPal’s COO Bill Ready told Karen Webster he was asked multiple times a week two years ago when PayPal was...

Quick Reads
Google Adds New Safety and Security Features With Android 17 Rollout

June 16, 2026
Google began rolling out Android 17 on Pixel Tuesday (June 16) and said it will extend the new operating system to other eligible Android devices throughout 2026. The company also said in a Tuesday blog post that it will begin adding Gemini Intelligence to select advanced devices later this summer. One of the new features in Android 17 is Bubbles, which lets users turn any […]

Google Faces New EU Pressure to Give AI Rivals Android Access

April 23, 2026
The European Commission is preparing to outline steps it wants Google to take to allow competitors’ artificial intelligence (AI) assistants to access features in the operating system of Android handsets, Bloomberg reported...

Google May Offer Publishers More Options to Control AI’s Use of Content

January 28, 2026
Google faces potential new regulations covering its search services in the United Kingdom and, in separate news, reportedly agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit in the United States involving its operating...

Perplexity Releases Android Version of Comet Browser, Says iOS Version Coming Soon

November 20, 2025
Perplexity’s artificial intelligence-powered browser, Comet, is now available in a mobile version. The company has released the first mobile version of the browser, Comet Android, and will release an iOS...