Apple, Google Call Truce in Smartphone Patent War (4)

By Agence France-Presse on 06:34 pm May 17, 2014 San Francisco. Google and Apple, the two technology titans behind the world's top smartphone platforms, called a truce Friday in a long-running patent war. "Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss all the current lawsuits that exist directly between the two companies," the companies said in a joint statement.