YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months, Google revealed today as part of parent company Alphabet’s fourth-quarter earnings report. This is the first report under newly instated Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who took over as the chief executive of the entire company late last year after co-founders Larry Page […]

BlackBerry’s future as a smartphone brand has been thrown into question after its current manufacturer said it would stop selling BlackBerry mobile phones later this year. Chinese firm TCL said it would halt sales of BlackBerry-branded handsets at the end of August and would end software support for phones in August 2022. The two companies […]

YouTube said Monday it would remove election-related videos that are “manipulated or doctored” to mislead voters, as part of its efforts to stem online misinformation. The Google-owned video service said it was taking the measures as part of an effort to be a “more reliable source” for news and to promote a “healthy political discourse.” […]

Chinese electronics group TCL will stop producing BlackBerry-branded smartphones this year, the companies said Monday, leaving it unclear whether that will be the end of the line for the once-dominant handsets. At the end of August, TCL will no longer have rights to design, make or sell BlackBerry smartphones, the Canadian company said in a […]

Panasonic said on Monday its operating profit for the April-December period dropped 18 per cent on lower sales in China but it left its full-year forecast intact despite the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The Japanese consumer electronics giant said its nine-month sales fell 5.4 per cent to 5.76 trillion yen ($53.04 billion) as the weakness of […]