Shruti Shekar is Android Central's Editor-in-Chief. She was born in India, brought up in Singapore, but now lives in Toronto. She started her journalism career as a political reporter in Ottawa, Canada's capital, and then made her foray into tech journalism at MobileSyrup and most recently at Yahoo Finance Canada. When work isn't on her mind, she loves working out, reading, watching the Raptors, and planning what she's going to eat the next day.
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Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share, stating that the platform has the "potential to be the platform for free speech."

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Twitter has acquired OpenBack, a mobile platform that helps makes apps more engaging through device-side control of push notifications.

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People still want a vanilla phone without Pro features

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Germany's major trade show IFA will be this September and will be in person again. It will bring major announcements in the tech world.

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The U.S. Justice Department has picked up speed in an investigation into Google's dominance with respect to its Maps software.

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Experts say that the way telecom companies have positioned premium handsets eliminates the need to have an affordable flagship category in North America.

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Experts say that until there are more manufacturers producing mmWave antennas, it'll be a long way before we see a budget Android device have the 5G capabilities.

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Discovery's CFO says Discovery+ and HBO Max are going to merge to become one service. We don't know when it will happen, but it will happen.

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Samsung has the largest Android market and Google wants to take advantage of that to roll out new features

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Google is going to roll out Air Raid alerts to those affected by the war in Ukraine. The feature was first spotted by XDA Developers.

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Creators are going to have so many more options to make new content

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Samsung launched the S22 and strongly pushed its camera features. Experts say that the company's marketing strategy is very different than that of Apple's and that's a good thing.

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Comparison website PriceRunner sues Google for $2.4 billion claiming the company has manipulated search results and has harmed consumers.

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Experts say Spotify misread the room around the Joe Rogan controversy, now the whip is being cracked and the misinformation honeymoon is over.

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Everyone is playing Wordle, but the game is only available on your web browser. One creator made it on Google Sheets and you can play too.

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Many rumors indicate that the S22 could launch with less RAM than the S21, but experts say there's a reason Samsung would potentially do this, and here's why.

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The Indian government is considering making its own native operating system as a way to compete with Google and Apple.

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A lot of people hate Samsung's Bixby and a few other proprietary apps. But maybe Samsung wouldn't be smart in deleting it, or maybe Samsung should be focusing on its good apps.

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Experts weigh in on the Google/Apple RCS/iMessage drama adding that if Google really cared enough, they would stop complaining and create a unified messaging platform.

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There are so many things Google accomplished in 2021. But we'd like to know what analysts want from the company, its products, and OS in 2022. And they had a lot to say!
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