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Moto E4 specs leaked ahead of official announcement

Lenovo owned smartphone maker Moto Mobility has kept mum about its upcoming entry level smartphone Moto E4. But recently the device get spotted in FCC website. The device along with a bigger version were spotted with their battery capacities. According to the FCC website the higher version, Moto E4 Plus will pack a 5,000 mAh battery. However, the website didn’t reveal any further information about its specification. But according to a AndroidSoul report, the device was spotted in an Indonesian regulatory website P3DN along with its detail specification. According to the listing, the Moto E4 will pack a 2,300 mAh battery and come powered by a MediaTek MT6737 processor. On the memory side, the phone will pack 16GB inbuilt storage and will be available in different RAM editions up to 4GB. To keep the price low, Moto E4 will stick to a 5-inch FWVGA (854x480 pixels) display. The device will also pack a 5-megapixels camera sensor on the back of the device and a 2-megapixels camera

Facebook adds group payments to Messenger

Facebook has rolled out group payments feature within its Messenger app, allowing users to pay either everyone in the group or individual members. According to a report in Tech Crunch, users can also request payments from the group right within their chat. Users can enter the amount they want to request from each person or the total amount to be divided evenly by the group members. They can also mention in a note about what the money is for. "A message will appear in the group chat to show who has paid. Those details are available by viewing the Request Details in full-screen, too," the report noted. This is a free service and does not require a password. Available on Android and desktop as of now, the group payments is live since Tuesday. "Payments is an area of Facebook's business that hasn't received as much focus over the years, despite the social network's potential to collect and store payment data for its sizable user base," the report

Meet this 12 year old who is building robots to save honey bees

Just like any other girl her age, 12-year-old Kavya Vignesh likes to have fun when she is not studying. But unlike many others, she likes to make those moments memorable by creating something that helps solve some real-world problems. Yes, you read that right. These days, she is busy giving final touches to a robot that has the potential to save honey bees in residential areas -- and for making a presentation of her bot at an international robotics event to be held in Denmark next month. Vignesh, a Class 7 student of Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, is part of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious -- India's youngest ever team to qualify for the First Lego League - European Open championship in Aarhus, scheduled for May this year. Using a combination of robotics and hi-tech components, Vignesh has developed a Bee Saver Bot that removes honey bees -- the species primarily responsible for pollination and honey production around the world -- safely and carefully without harm

13 Facts You Didn't Know About Google

Google (GOOG) is one of the largest American multinational technology companies providing users with Internet-related services and products. Google Incorporated is the third largest company, in terms of  market capitalization , in the United States; its market cap is $373.79 billion, only being edged out by Microsoft Corporation and Apple Incorporated. Although Google is one of the most well-known companies throughout the world, there are a plethora of facts that many do not know about Google. Before Google became a powerhouse search engine, it was known as BackRub. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, met at Stanford University in 1995. The next year, Page and Brin collaborated on a new project, a powerful search engine called BackRub, which operated on Stanford University's servers. Google.com registered as a domain on Sept. 15, 1997. The name is a play on "googol," which is a term for a very large number, a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name reflect

Google's 6 Most Profitable Lines of Business

Google once more became the most valuable public company in the world when its parent Alphabet Inc. (NASQAQ:  GOOGL ) reached a market cap of $547.1 billion, which is higher than that of Apple at $529.3 billion. The last time Google was more valuable than Apple was about six years ago. Unlike Apple's reliance on the iPhone to drive revenue, Google has multiple streams of income. Many of Google's revenue sources have experienced tremendous growth over the years. Google AdWords and Search Advertising The company's proprietary advertising service, Google AdWords, continues to be a major contributor to Google's revenue at 68%, or $45 billion in 2014. In 2015, Google's aggregate paid clicks, a key advertising measure, rose 31% from the previous year,  beating the consensus expectation  of a 22% rise. Across all industries, companies continue to drive up the  cost per click  (CPC). In 2011, the insurance industry commanded 24% of Google AdWords revenue, for

5 of the Worst Products Google Ever

Since its debut in 1996, Alphabet Inc. commonly known as Google, has transformed itself from a simple search engine provider to a global advertising, cloud and software business. As of Aug. 26, 2016, the company was the second largest in the world by  market capitalization  behind Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:  AAPL ). Google has enjoyed a great deal of success thanks to websites such as YouTube, and products, such as Google Docs, Google AdWords and the Google Chrome operating system. Not every product, however, has been a hit. Some failures were quietly merged into newer products, while others were discontinued altogether. Some products were unsuccessful because they failed to replace or improve upon an already existing popular product, or simply failed due to faulty execution. Google is one of the most successful technology companies around, but these products didn't do much to help its reputation. Google Answers Google Answers was developed as a tool for individuals who wan

Microsoft Buys Deis to Compete With Google, Amazon (MSFT, AMZN)

Microsoft’s (MSFT ) drive to close in on Amazon’s ( AMZN ) dominance of the lucrative  cloud hosting  market continues to gain momentum. The Redmond-based tech giant confirmed that it paid an undisclosed amount to  acquire  San Francisco software  startup  Deis, meaning that Microsoft’s Azure cloud service will now be equipped with increasingly popular container technologies. Deis’ open source tool uses Kubernetes, a sophisticated software that enables developers to build codes in a virtual box that can easily be shared and moved between applications and across clouds. The technology, which was originally developed by Google ( GOOG ), is popular with businesses because it allows them to automate the deployment, scaling and management of applications better than ever before. “Deis gives developers the means to vastly improve application agility, efficiency and reliability through their Kubernetes container management technologies,” Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executiv