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Google's Android will power more than two-thirds of all smartphones shipped worldwide in 2017, research firm Canalys forecasts.

Google's YouTube video unit has tripled its mobile advertising sales over the last six months, YouTube Vice President of Sales Lucas Watson told Bloomberg.

Are you ready for some football? Verizon Wireless says you are--and it's putting its money where its mouth is. This week the operator inked a new multi-year agreement with the National Football League to stream all regular season and playoff games to mobile phones, a deal that will kick off in tandem with the 2014 NFL season.

Snapchat released version 5.0 of its popular photo sharing service for Apple's iOS, dramatically overhauling the app's user interface.

Google is rolling out Keyboard, a text input application that delivers typing features and tools found in the company's Nexus device line to all smartphones and tablets running Android 4.0 and higher.

BlackBerry is in negotiations with competing manufacturers to offer its signature BlackBerry Messenger chat service as a preinstalled application on their phones.

GungHo Online Entertainment's Puzzle & Dragons reigns as the top revenue-generating application worldwide across both Apple's iOS and Google's Android, app analytics firm Distimo reports.

A day after Zynga announced plans to lay off 18 percent of its workforce, or 520 employees, one of those former staffers harshly criticized the social gaming firm's business strategy and culture in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" question-and-answer session Tuesday.

Opera Software is rolling out an overhauled version of its popular Opera Mini mobile browser, promising a more advanced, feature-rich Web experience for low-priced phones.

North American consumers are on pace to spend $44 billion on in-store mobile wallet transactions in 2017, up from just $500 million in 2012, according to a new forecast issued by research firm Berg Insight.