From The Verge: Comcast has formally withdrawn its competing $65 billion bid to acquire 21st Century Fox, ceding the rights to the entertainment company to Disney’s upped $71.3 billion offer. Comcast says it will instead shift all focus to its ongoing efforts to acquire Europe’s Sky instead.

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From PC Mag: There aren't many companies out there with enough money and power to take on Netflix and Amazon in the streaming space. Walmart is one that could, and apparently the retail giant is considering doing just that.

As Arstechnica reports, Walmart is in the very early stages of considering...

From CNET: Fingerprint-smudged smartphones may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new technology from glass maker Corning.

Handset vendors like Apple and Samsung have been incorporating more and more glass in their phone designs over the past couple of years. While devices originally had glass...

From PC Mag: Google and the European Union are certainly not on friendly terms right now, and haven't been for quite some time. That's because Google's business practices are being called into question and the search giant isn't winning any arguments. The latest focus of the EU is Android, and the...

From CNET: Google Assistant will now pull together curated personal information, like flight times, restaurant reservations, scheduled meetings, expected package deliveries, reminders and more, and lay them out in a single overview you can scroll through.

Announced on Monday, the new feature will...

From The Verge: Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz is stepping down as the smart home gadget maker is reshuffled yet again, now operating under the Google division responsible for the company’s Home smart speakers, according to a report from CNET. Just five months ago, Fawaz oversaw Nest’s reintegration under...

From PC Mag: Walmart knows that its biggest rival is Amazon, so to better compete with the company run by the world's richest person, Walmart is teaming up with Microsoft.

Today, Walmart announced that it has established a strategic partnership with Microsoft to, "further accelerate Walmart's...

From CNET: Amazon said sales during its annual Prime Day event in the US are surging so far, even after a series of glitches crippled its site and app for many customers on Monday.

"Prime Day sales in the U.S. so far are bigger than ever – in fact, in the first ten hours Prime Day grew even faster...

From The Verge: Samsung’s still weeks away from announcing the Galaxy Note 9, but we’re already moving on to rumors for the company’s next flagship phone: the Galaxy S10. According to Business Insider, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said Sunday that he believes the S10 will come in three different sizes: 5.8...

From The Verge: Roku has long been known for its set-top boxes and Roku TVs, but now, the entertainment company is introducing the Roku TV Wireless Speakers. They’re the Roku’s first pair of wireless speakers that will harness the Roku Connect platform that was announced at CES to link up with your...