Just a day after a report claiming that Twitter received a $31 billion buyout offer hit the headlines, the micro-blogging company has confirmed that the story is fake. Interestingly, the report led to the company's share price increasing by 8%, although it closed up only 2.6% after the dust settled.

If you aren't in the know, the report was published on a site named bloomberg.market (its account has since been suspended), which looked like a Bloomberg website. This made the story look legit, at-least at the first glance. A Bloomberg spokesperson, however, later confirmed that the story was "fake and appeared on a bogus website."

Incidentally, all this happened just over a month after former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo decided to step down from his position amid mounting concerns over slow user growth.

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Google Drive has received an update that allows users to further control how shared documents are used by others. The cloud service now lets you disable downloading, printing, and copying of files.

The new functionality can be accessed from the advanced sharing menu (see image above) – just open the sharing dialogue from any Google Drive file, and click on Advanced in the lower right hand corner. Files for which this feature has been enabled will show an Export option disabled notification in the File and Edit menus (see image below).

The feature, which is currently only available for the web version of the service, can be used for any file stored in Drive, including documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created with Google…

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According to the popular @upleaks tipster, the rumoured Sony Lavender smartphone will be released as Sony Xperia C5 Ultra. This comes just days after there were reports that the device will be called Xperia T4 Ultra.

Specs-wise, the handset is rumoured to be powered by a MediaTek MT6752 SoC with 1.7GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU, and sport a 5.5 inch 1080p display. It is said to come with 2GB RAM, 13MP Sony IMX214 sensor, and a 5MP front-facing camera with LED flash, and run Android Lollipop.

The Xperia T4 Ultra rumor said that the smartphone will be launched next month. There is, however, no word on whether or not it will be available globally.

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An image captured using the upcoming OnePlus 2 smartphone made the rounds on Twitter, courtesy of @MKBHD. The successor of OnePlus One will make its official debut later this month, on July 27 in virtual reality.

The photo sports a resolution of 4160 x 3120 pixels, this pointing at a 13MP camera sensor. The camera has f/2.0 aperture, which doesn't quite match the f/1.9 in the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge and f/1.8 in the LG G4. The device used to capture this camera is the ONE A2001 variant.

OnePlus 2 is confirmed to feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM8994 mobile chipset with Adreno 430 GPU, and 4GB of RAM. A fingerprint sensor and USB Type-C are also going to be on board. OnePlus 2 will have a sub-$450 price tag when it…

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The wait is over, ZTE has taken the wraps off its new high-end device. It's called Axon, and it was apparently designed in the US, with the US market in mind.

ZTE will sell the Axon unlocked for $449.98 (without tax). What you get for that amount of cash is quite a bit of smartphone, so to speak.

The Axon has a 5.5-inch QHD LCD touchscreen, a dual rear camera (13 MP + 2 MP) with dual-LED flash and 4K video capture, an 8 MP selfie camera, a whopping 4GB of RAM, as well as 32GB of of non-expandable storage.

Running the show is the well known Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC, boasting a 2 GHz octa-core CPU in ARM's big.LITTLE configuration. The Axon has a 3,000 mAh non-removable battery (with quick charge support) and it runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, an almost stock version.

It has a metallic body, Hi-Fi audio playback of 32-bit 192KHz audio files, and (obviously) 4G LTE support.

It will be available in Ion Gold, Chromium Silver, and Phthalo Blue. You can already pre-order it from ZTE and get a free TPU case and a pair of JBL earbuds (which are a $49.99 value). Pre-orders should also be available at Amazon, Newegg, and eBay shortly. There's no information about a shipping date…

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Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Note 5 on August 12, according to a new report, which also says that the device will be accompanied by the Galaxy S6 edge Plus smartphone, which will be launched as Galaxy S6 edge+. Both devices will go on sale beginning August 21.

The report also reveals some interesting details about the devices. It says the Galaxy Note 5 won't feature a microSD slot. And in terms of design, the handset will be what it calls a "blown-up version" of the company's Galaxy S6 flagship, but with an extremely thin screen bezel. The device will be available in silver, gold, black, and white color options.

In addition, the report notes that the S Pen will also undergo some design changes, making it look more like a pen. Also, it will be of the same color as the handset.

As for the S6 edge Plus, the report says that the phablet will be powered by an Exynos 7420 SoC instead of a Snapdragon 808 chipset as was being rumoured earlier. It will come with 3GB RAM.

Last but not the least, the report also says that the South Korean company will also launch its mobile payments service Samsung Pay in the US on August…

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