Chrome is Adding Biometric Authentication for Payments on Android If you useGoogle Chromeon your Android smartphone for all your browsing needs, you’ll be glad to know that the company is adding yet another feature to the browser. Chrome on Android will soon start supporting biometric authentication for payments you make on the web. The upcoming feature has been announced by Google, along with details about how it will work on Android....

Google Chrome Brings Android’s Nearby Share to Windows PCs; Here’s How to Enable It Google’s version of Apple’s Airdrop, calledNearby Share, started rolling to a select few Android users earlier this week. It hasdisappearedfor some but it seems to be enabled and working fine for others. The company has alsostarted rolling outNearby Share to Chromebooks but what’s most surprising is that the Chrome browser on Windows PCs now also brings support for Nearby Share feature....

Google Facing EU Antitrust Probe Over Proposed $2.1B Fitbit Acquisition: Report Google’s $2.1 billion offer to acquire Fitbitis reportedly facing serious antitrust scrutiny in Europe. According to unnamed sources quoted by Reuters, the deal is triggering a“full-scale EU antitrust investigation”. The EU will reportedly start its probe August 4th following the end of its preliminary review. The news comes in the midst of thehistoric US Congressional antitrust hearinginvolving Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple....

Google Maps Now Lets You ‘Follow’ Other Users Google may havestruggled to come up with a standalone social networking siteon the lines ofFacebookorTwitter, but that that isn’t stopping the tech behemoth from offering social features in its existing apps and services. Almost a year after announcing plans to enableGoogle Mapsusers to‘follow’ their favorite Local Guideson the app, the company is now expanding the feature to allow all users to follow one another....

Google Teases Pixel 4a Launch for 3rd August After months of anticipation, Google plans to finally take the wraps off its next budget smartphone — thePixel 4aon August 3. Take the wraps off? We already know almost everything about this affordable Pixel phone. So, it would be more like an official price reveal. Google has shared a bunch of new teaser for the Pixel 4a. The online store now has adedicated micrositefor‘The Google Just What You’ve Been Waiting For Phone’that confirms the launch for next week....

How to Get iOS 14 Features on Android without Root iOS and Android have been long-standing competitors. There are times when Apple takes inspiration from Android. Similarly, Google brings newprivacy features taking a cue from iOS. At this point, both the ecosystems are quite polished and have matured by leaps and bounds, especially Android. However, there is one aspect that makes iOS stand out and that is privacy controls. Every year, Apple adds new privacy controls to iOS which makes Android users wanting for more....

Huawei Overtakes Samsung to Become the World’s Largest Smartphone Maker: Report For the first time in nine years, Chinese tech giantHuawei has surpassed South Korean behemoth Samsung in terms of global smartphone shipments. That’s according to a new report from market analysis firm Canalys. As per the firm,Huawei shipped 55.8 million smartphones in the second quarterof this year.Samsung, on the other hand, came second with 53.7 million smartphone shipments. While Huawei witnessed a 5 percent year-over-year decline sales, Samsung had to face a 30 percent fall when compared to its figures in the same quarter last year....