Google has today confirmed in a regulatory filing that it has completed its $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest Labs, the smart home thermostat company founded by Apple’s former iPod chief, Tony Fadell.

Samsung will soon launch new variations of its midrange offerings like the Galaxy Core and the Galaxy Ace, according to various reports.

The Galaxy Core family could get three new variants called the Galaxy Core Max, Galaxy Core Ultra and the Galaxy Core Prima. A new variant of the Galaxy Ace known as the Galaxy Ace Style is also on the cards.

If you didn’t get your hands on Flappy Bird before it was pulled from Google Play earlier this week, then you should be careful looking for an alternative. Many of the countless clones that have popped up over the past few days are taking advantage of the game’s success to get malware onto unsuspecting devices.

The Nokia Normandy is all but confirmed and slated for a launch on February 24 during MWC, and now a new report from China claims that this will be the first of several Android-powered smartphones from Nokia throughout 2014.

Many Android users weren’t too pleased to see the new Pebble appstore rolling out on iOS — and only iOS — earlier this month. The company had promised that Android users will get the same “very, very soon,” but almost ten days on, the update is still nowhere to be seen in Google Play.

Pebble’s lead software engineer, Kean Wong, has now taken to the company’s blog to try to explain the delay.