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Fitbit shares surged Monday on a report that Google’s parent company Alphabet is looking into buying the wearable company.  Alphabet has “made an offer” to buy Fitbit, Reuters reports, though terms weren’t disclosed. After briefly being halted, shares of Fitbit resumed trading late Monday morning, with the company’s stock price rising by nearly 28% to $5.51 …

Which Android has the best camera? Google’s new Pixel 4 phones are certainly contenders, but for a large chunk of 2019 the answer was Huawei’s P30 Pro. Upon its launch, CNET’s Andrew Hoyle said that the P30 Pro took better photos than any other phone. Apple’s phones captured better videos, but between the P30 Pro’s quad-camera setup and features that …

AT&T’s chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson will get to keep his job at least another year, the company announced Monday as part of a major announcement around the company’s corporate governance.  The telecom giant, which is in the midst of a massive transformation into a media and entertainment powerhouse, is responding to a challenge from an activist hedge fund, Elliot …

Mario Kart Tour has already reached 129.3 million downloads on the Google Play store and Apple App Store, a Monday report by Sensor Tower says. It was outraced only by Pokemon Go, which amassed 163 million downloads in its first 30 days and has since crossed the 1 billion threshold. Nintendo announced the Mario Kart mobile game back in January …

With the blink of an eye, Google’s Pixel 4 (and Pixel 4 XL) accomplished something that no other significant Android phone-maker has. It finally caught up to iPhone’s Face ID — a biometric unlocking feature that Apple popularized two years ago — to unlock the phone and buy things with a scan of your face. Now that a secure version exists …

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint said Thursday they’ve formed a joint project to “transform messaging.” In a rare move, all four big US carriers are working together on the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative, which will use the Rich Communications Service standard to make text messages as smart as iMessage — and it will work on Android phones. The service will …

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games.   Apple Arcade has added five more games to its new $4.99 monthly subscription service on Friday. Players can now check out Fallen Knight, Yaga, Lifelike, Hogwash and Tales of Memo as part of Apple Arcade’s growing catalog of games. The …

Facebook said Friday that it’s testing a tab that will display curated news stories, a move that could help the social network surface more credible media outlets as it tries to curtail the spread of misinformation. “It’s no secret that the internet has really disrupted the news business model,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday at an event in New York …

As it gears up for its spring 2020 launch, more details are finally starting to come out about AT&T’s forthcoming HBO Max service. While we still don’t have all the details on what will be on the new HBO-centered service — that will likely need to wait until AT&T’s WarnerMedia investor day on Oct. 29 — a new report is …

Apple Arcade may be getting all of the attention for its range of 100-plus games that appeal to families, kids and casual gamers, but Apple may have another plan in mind for the iPad that will appeal to more hard-core gamers in the future.  Apple brought mouse support to iPadOS only for accessibility purposes this fall, but the company may …