Worldwide, revenue from mobile video will reach $25 billion by 2021, according to a recent Strategy Analytics report. As such, top platforms are anxious to turn this bonanza into bucks. Just this week, Facebook said it was testing a new format in which 15-second ad videos can be placed into Facebook Live streams.

New research from IDC suggests that Google is losing its grip on the tablet market as its Android vendor list contracts, and -- hedging against the decline of Android slates -- champions of the OS increasingly offer Windows-based products.

From privacy issues to the zombification of large populations of people, the Pokemon Go phenomenon has had some disturbing side effects. Taking the cake, however, a recent report showed how the game could lead to unwelcome encounters with registered sex offenders.