Google unveils new products at I/O conference 01:13. Google is making a billion-dollar bet on smartphones.The search giant is buying a big piece of device manufacturer HTC for $1.1 billion to ...

Picture an HTC Google phone whose desktop shows a grid of icons with gaps. Arrows on the screen help you navigate your windows. A physical unlock button on the phone gets you past the lock screen.

Google is buying part of HTC’s smartphone team for $1.1 billion. About 2,000 HTC staffers to join Google. About 2,000 HTC staffers to join Google. by Chris Welch. Sep 21, 2017, 2:11 AM UTC ...

Google isn't buying HTC outright, à la Motorola. Instead, Google and HTC have signed an agreement to send some of HTC's employees over to Google, while HTC gets a $1.1 billion cash infusion.

Rumors out of Taiwan suggest that Google is preparing to purchase some or all of HTC's smartphone division. If true, it would mark a sad end for the company that built the first Android phone.

Google hands over $1.1bn and takes about 2,000 engineers from HTC's ranks. They've been working on the company's "Powered by HTC" team, helping to make devices like Google's Pixel among others.

Google's next mission is challenging, but not impossible: Destroy the iPhone once and for all. And it could accomplish it by buying HTC's mobile division.

Google is hiring a team of HTC employees—about 2,000 people in all, members of HTC's "Powered by HTC" division—most of whom have already been working on Google's Pixel phones.

The purchase of HTC's division isn't likely amount to much--HTC is valued at $1.9 billion--but Google would acquire a supply chain, research and development and skills that would be hard to create ...

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Google agreed to buy part of HTC Corp.'s engineering and design teams for $1.1 billion, taking on a cadre of veterans that worked on the Pixel phone. The search giant is preparing to unveil a ...