For the very first time in the history of Microsoft, Bill Gates, the founder of the world’s giant software conglomerate is no longer its major shareholder. In the past two days, Mr. Gates has sold almost 8 million shares of Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500), bringing down his total to roughly 330 million which puts him behind Microsoft’s former CEO Steve Ballmer who owns 333 million shares.

Guess who generated a lot of buzz last week, its none other than Google as always! It gave the world a peep into the future, as only it can, this time with a innovative version of the company’s long-gestating self-driving car.

Unlike the versions that we’ve seen up to now, which was a modded-up Lexus SUV, this new independent vehicle looked like something out of a Pixar movie, a small bubble car with a faintly happy face on the front, and completely no steering wheel or pedals.

On July 25th 2014, Amazon will be releasing their first smartphone called, the “Fire Phone”. Amazon’s entry into the smartphone world puts them in competition with products like Samsung’s Galaxy and Apple’s iPhone.

Fire Phone has 3D imaging, 13 megapixel camera with optical image stabilization, 1080p HD video, a 4.7 inch HD screen, Dolby digital audio, 2 GB of RAM, and a 2.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

Facebook was swamped with criticisms, last week when it started requiring its mobile users to download its Facebook messenger app separately for Android and iOS separate from its basic Facebook app.

Users grumbled about having to use the separate app to send messages, photos or videos to their friends. Other userswere concerned that the Messenger app raised the question of invasion of privacy.

Rumor has it that Apple is working on its smart watch concept also commonly referred to as the “iWatch” since late 2012. As it appears, the company seems to have accelerated the speed of its work on this innovation as it has been eager to expand its array of mobile devices to the wrist. Apple however has started trade marking the name in some of the countries in lieu of a late 2014 introduction; some reports say it could be in October.

For a leading technology giant that ranks itself as a something above the rest, it’s astounding for us to see how often Apple sits back and lets others pilot the way. The Apple users call this as virtue, while Android users name it as a weakness. We all remember the days when Steve Jobs used to make fun of large sized smartphones, but with iPhone 6 and 6 plus we feel like Apple is starting to surrender that bigger is better.

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Apple Inc this week has become the first company to achieve a market value of $700 billion for its share resetting the trends in the tech industry, making apple the ultimatetech icon now that it has hit this huge milestone. The shares of apple rose 1% in morning trade to $119.75 at 1525 GMT, making its market capitalization $701.7 billion. The shares were fluctuating in a constricted range later.

Lenovo's yoga series has introduced thin and light laptops in the market at the moment. It is not only stylish and portable but also works as a tablet as well as a laptop. It is a great option for everyday usage. The latest model in yoga line is the Lenovo Yoga3 Pro.

This device is praised for its decent performance with minimal power consumption.

As we all have know, Microsoft and Dropbox have been the tech industry rivals for quite some time now. Many reports see it as a partnership to collaborate and work jointly against their mutual enemy, Google. Supposedly Dropbox houses 35 billion Office files that are used by 80,000 companies worldwide. Wes Miller, the Directions on Microsoft analyst says, This partnership gives both something to walk away with and in the end, customers of both win out”.

Do you travel a lot and capture photos from your mobile camera? Do you party hard and are the images you capture at the pub are always blurred? Are the wedding pictures that you took on your phone not of great quality? In the current scenario even though many folks are going for DSLR cameras many are still purchasing phones with better camera quality and with high mega pixel.