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Google has launched a new store within a store in central London as the search giant looks replicate the success Apple has had with its retail stores.

Baidu joins tech giants Apple, Sony, Google and China's Leshi Internet in developing connected vehicles.

The much anticipated Apple Watch was unveiled in San Francisco on 9 March.

Apple TV gets price drop to just £59 as partnership with HBO is announced.

A fibre-optic laser weapon capable of stopping a truck dead in its tracks was announced by US-based aerospace and defence company, Lockheed Martin earlier this week.

Each gold edition of Apple Watch expected to contain two ounces of precious metal.

Apple's rumoured electric car project is known internally as Titan.

Premier Li Keqiang wants to boost China's technology industry against a backdrop of slowing economic growth.

Chinese firm making a big mark on the smartphone market coming to Europe without its most interesting product.

Pichai spoke at Mobile World Congress on a wide range of subjects including Android's reach and wearables.

A proposed $415m (£267m) settlement could end a lawsuit brought by tech workers over salary fixing.

Apple VR development continues as iPhone maker searches for senior display engineers specialising in virtual reality.

Following outcry from thousands of Blogger users, Google has backed down and won't now be banning all sexually explicit content from the platform

The $40bn will come from areas such as cloud computing, big data analytics, mobile, social and security software.

Apple is hosting a media event on 9 March where it is widely expected to give more details on its Apple Watch

Artificial intelligence program that 'learns from the ground up' developed by Google's DeepMind.

IBTimes UK visited Vertu, the English luxury phone maker closer to Rolex than Apple, and spoke to its CEO Massimiliano Pogliani

The iPhone maker is now worth more than twice as much as any other publicly traded US company.

Apple will invest €1.7 billion into new Irish and Danish data centres, providing support for Siri, Maps, iTunes and the App Store in Europe

Image's of HTC's flagship smartphone for 2015 has leaked online revealing all specs and its price ahead of its official launch at Mobile World Congress

Analysts at RBC Capital Markets and Barclays expect Apple to announce a massive capital return programme in April.

An honest and entertaining account of what it takes to build a startup from a kitchen in Denmark to a multi-billion dollar US company

Lenovo's range of consumer laptops come pre-installed with a piece of adware that also allows it to monitor secure communications like banking and email

Sony boss Kazuo Hirai says the struggling Japanese firm is targeting a $4.2bn operating profit in three years.

President Obama's claims of Europe protecting domestic technology firms branded 'out of line' by European Commission

From CarPlay and Maps, to challenging Google and Tesla - five reasons why we think Apple is exploring the car industry with project Titan.

From a mysterious van spotted in San Francisco, to employees poached from Tesla, this is everything we know about Apple's Project Titan

Apple is claimed to be developing a car which will "give Tesla a run for its money"

Elon Musk's Tesla electric car company is creating a battery pack to power our homes, and production could begin in six months