It released its first Android smartphone in 2009, and can be credited with the launch of the first Android tablet back in 2010. The company is among the biggest players in the smartphone market in the ...

To “accelerate” Android XR development, Google announced this evening that it “signed an agreement to welcome some of the HTC VIVE engineering team to Google.” In 2017, Google acquired a ...

If that’s the case then an Android XR-powered HTC headset – either a new model, or older devices that have been updated to run on the new operating system – could be a winner. As with all ...

To boost its efforts on this front further and speed up Android XR's development, Google has signed an agreement with HTC to welcome some HTC Vive engineers to its team. In 2017, Google took ...

Founded in Beijing in 1984, Lenovo acquired IBM's PC business in 2005, and first became the world's top PC maker in 2013. It entered the Android and Windows tablet market in 2011, began selling ...

Google LLC announced today that it’s acquiring parts of HTC Corp. Vive’s engineering team to accelerate the development of its new Android XR operating system for virtual reality and extended ...

Instead of buying their smartphone engineers this time, Google is now buying their HTC VIVE engineers. And that makes sense, since those folks work on headsets and Android XR is a headset platform.