Google is biting off a big piece of device manufacturer HTC for $1.1 billion to expand its efforts to build phones, speakers, and other gadgets equipped with its arsenal of digital services.
It's buying the HTC engineering team that built the Pixel smartphone for Google in a cash deal, the companies said in a joint statement Thursday. Google is also getting a non-exclusive license for Taiwan-based HTC's intellectual property to help support Pixel phones.
The deal underscores how serious Google is becoming about designing its own family of devices to compete against Apple and Amazon in a high-stakes battle to become the technological hub of people's lives.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:02PM (1 child)
Don't worry. I already have the newspaper from tomorrow. The Google news says "Google abandons smart devices and will discontinue all support next week. They will continue with ads, Gmail, Chrome and Android."
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:36PM
Only until the tech is ready to reliably project their ads directly on your walls, and track your reactions.