Four of the world's biggest tech giants - Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe - have agreed to a new settlement of $415m (£273.5m) in an attempt to resolve a lawsuit.

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 Google has announced changes to its search engine in an attempt to curb online piracy.

 Google is to begin rolling out version 5.0 of its Android operating system, codenamed Lollipop, on Friday.

 Google has said it will give preference to more secure websites in its search rankings from now on.

 Motorola faces the prospect of being forced to remove its handsets from sale in Germany and to recall phones already bought by business customers.

 Google's Motorola Mobility has said it will close its Fort Worth, Texas factory after its Moto X smartphone failed to appeal to consumers.

 Google is to start building its own self-driving cars, rather than modifying vehicles built by other manufacturers.

 Mobile phone industry giants Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss lawsuits they had brought against each other over technology patents.

 Google and Viacom have resolved a long-running legal battle regarding copyrighted material on YouTube.

 Google has acquired SlickLogin - an Israeli start-up behind the technology that allows websites to verify a user's identity by using sound waves.

 Google has sold struggling US mobile phone company Motorola Mobility to Chinese computer maker Lenovo for $2.91bn (£1.8bn), in a surprise move.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Admicro proves to be “as brave as a lion” when stating that it believes it is completely capable to cope with the giant Google in the field of mobile advertisement.

VietNamNet Bridge – Companies that do not have a representative office in Viet Nam but allow Vietnamese users access to Facebook and Google, must adhere to Viet Nam's regulations and laws on the management, provision and use of Internet services

 VietNamNet Bridge – Google Inc announced on July 2 the launch of three new search tools in Vietnamese - Knowledge Graph, Voice search on Android and Google handwrite.

Vietnamese digital content firms cannot see any opportunity to defeat Google when competing face to face with the US giant.

A lot of Vietnamese searching engines, namely xalo, monava, and timnhanh, once stated that they would outstrip Google, but they finally died young, or had to shift to other business.

Neil Fraser, a Google software engineer, said Vietnamese high school students have the informatics knowledge good enough to go through the interview round at Google.

 Google said it was tossing its Reader service and seven other products under a house cleaning campaign that has closed 70 of the Internet giant's features in the past two years.

 Yahoo! on Wednesday announced an advertising alliance with Google, the company that dethroned the pioneering Internet firm in the world of Internet search.