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Yahoo has been struggling to make sense of search, social and advertising. They tried to jump into music, video but the company lost the war when it began to falter on its core strengths and was eventually snapped up by Verizon for $4.8 Billion.

Oppo India has begun sending out invites for the launch of their new "selfie expert", the Oppo F1s on August 3rd. It is expected to come with a 16MP front-facing camera and a fingerprint sensor embedded in the home button.

Last week Prisma started rolling out its beta app for Android, which was quickly pulled as it reached to more people than they had intended. Now, the official final version of the Prisma app is now available in the Play Store.

Samsung announced yesterday that they have sued Huawei Technologies Co Ltd for patent infringement in China. This move seems to be a retaliation as Huawei had earlier sued Samsung in California and China over 4G Cellular communications technology patents.

Xiaomi has started rolling out an OTA update for MIUI 8 Global Beta ROM with version 6.7.21 which fixes time, date, weather issues in the status bar and adds automatic optimization to images when shared from Gallery.

There have been many rumors surrounding the Galaxy Note 7, but an Iris Scanner in the front has been most persistent. Now, there's a video showing how the Iris Scanner works on the Galaxy Note 7.

Pokémon Go has finally arrived in Japan, making it the first Asian country to play the Augmented Reality mobile game. John Hanke from Niantic announced the arrival on a video giving a nod to the game's origin in Japan.

Just last week Consumer Reports has said that Galaxy S7 Active not as waterproof as Samsung claimed it to be. They tested two S7 Active smartphones and both of them failed the test. Samsung has now found and fixed the issue in one of its production lines.