Google’s headquarters in Mountain View. Photo: View

Fancy a .app web address? You’re going to be buying it from Google. The search giant has splashed out just over $25 million on the entire .app web domain, which is around $19 million more than any other company has paid for a top-level domain so far.

Google Play is getting ads. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Google’s mission to make money from Android is just about to get started. Starting today, a new “pilot program” will see sponsored results (ads) appearing in your Play Store searches.

BlackBerry’s world famous security is coming to Android. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

BlackBerry may be struggling to attract smartphone users to its own BlackBerry 10 platform, but it may have more success helping others improve theirs. The Canadian company today announced that it is now working with Google to make Android devices more secure.

Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android.

Samsung is set to overhaul its TouchWiz user interface for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge to provide a more streamlined experience that’ll be snappier than ever before — but exactly how far will it go?

Will the South Korean company really do away with all of its own apps and make them optional? Apparently so. Sources say just three Samsung apps will come pre-installed on its next-generation Galaxy S devices.

BlackBerry 10 wasn’t the savior BlackBerry hoped it would be. Photo: BlackBerry

BlackBerry’s smartphone business is imploding in a big way in the U.K., where the company is currently losing around 56,000 users every month to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, new research shows.

Just two years ago, the Canadian company had around 8 million non-business users in the U.K., but that figure is expected to fall below 1 million by the end of this year.