Voice recognition in Google Now is getting better and can now handle up to seven …

Google sees an opportunity with fitness and, like Apple before it, the company is building a service to help the growing list of wearable devices talk to one another. Dubbed Google Fit, Google said its new platform will help users keep track of their fitness goals across various platforms and wearables. “Fit takes away the complexity of handling multiple sources,” …

Stripe San Francisco-based startup Stripe has secured a deal with Chinese company Alibaba’s third-party payment service Alipay in a partnership that opens up western businesses to what accounts for half of China’s internet transactions. Stripe offers businesses and individuals the ability to make payments easily over the Internet, similar to PayPal. According to a blog post from Stripe, the company …