The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. What it hasn't delivered are many jobs.

Supplying Google with smartphones isn't a victory - it's an embarrassing end to HTC's decade-long campaign to break out of that contract-manufacturing business and stand on its own two feet.

Google has announced a neural machine translation (NMT) system that it says will reduce translation errors across its Google Translate service by between 55% and 85%, calling the achievement by its team of scientists a "significant milestone".

Leadership churn and fundamental challenges conspired against the modular smartphone.

It won't be just Apple that might be interested in making a counter-offer. Google, whose Android smartphones are based on ARM, Samsung and TSMC could all benefit from an acquisition of the UK firm.