Growth in the use of mobile devices has surprised even Google, but its lucrative advertising machine is healthy and handling the transition, advertising chief Sridhar Ramaswamy said Thursday. Read More »

Google’s YouTube put another arrow in its quiver in its fight against game-streaming services like Amazon.com’s Twitch. It will now allow for live video streams that run at a high rate of 60 frames per second, double its prior limit of 30 fps.

Last fall, YouTube began allowing videos that play at 60fps. The higher frame rates are important to players who don’t want slowdowns or degraded video quality, particularly in fast-moving genres such as racers and first-person shooters like “Call of Duty.” The change is noticeable when watching videos in high definition. Read More »

The chief executive who sought greater autonomy for the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers — the agency that manages the technical operations of the Internet — has announced he is leaving early next year. Read More »

YouTube is the monster of online video, but has yet to generate big profits for Google. Thursday, the Internet giant launched a new effort to change that.

Google added shopping elements to YouTube’s skippable pre-roll video advertisements, known as TrueView ads. During some TrueView ads, viewers will also see products for sale, with prices, images and a button to click that will take them to an advertiser’s website to buy the item. Read More »

Hewlett-Packard Co. is facing many of the same challenges as other big corporate technology vendors. It’s struggling to re-invent itself in the age of cloud computing and fighting a new generation of nimble enterprise-technology companies.

But for H-P, there’s an added obstacle: The company is in the middle of the largest corporate split in history. Read More »

SoftBank Corp. chief executive Masayoshi Son will step down as chairman of Yahoo Japan Corp.’s board of directors to be replaced by Nikesh Arora, a former Google Inc. executive recently named as a likely successor of the Japanese telecommunications and Internet giant. Read More »

Nvidia makes powerful graphics processors popular with computer and console game makers, but this month began shipping a hardware and software development kit  that is a crucial part of carmakers’ training of their onboard computers to recognize objects on real-world roads. Read More »

Amazon’s Prime shipping program has not only spawned a generation of loyal buyers, but, more recently, imitators.

The latest to jump into the mix is eBay, which is testing a Prime-like program in Germany that it plans to roll out more broadly in that country in this year’s second half. Read More »

Nintendo of America is taking a big leap of faith in bringing aboard a new vice president of sales. The lucky hire: Bowser.

No, not that Bowser (we hope). Read More »

HANGZHOU–In the cutthroat world of China’s Internet startups, how can former rivals, having combined to form the country’s largest ride hailing business, learn to work together? The secret, one top executive says, is constant internal reminders to set aside the past and start anew. And: Stay in crisis mode.

China’s two dominant ride-hailing apps, Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache, until recently were locked in a fierce battle for market share, each trying to attract users and drivers by spending heavily on promotions. They were separately backed by powerful competitors, e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and social networking and gaming titan Tencent Holdings, which helped them raise hundreds of millions of dollars in their latest rounds. Read More »