BARCELONA: Billionaire 29-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stars in the mobile industry’s biggest fair Monday, fresh from his $19 billion (14-billion-euro) takeover of smartphone messenger WhatsApp. The keynote speaker on the…
Month: February 2014
New Google Maps now available for all
Google makes the new Maps a default interface, offers improved keyword search, new imagery of all places and better directions for all transit modes. Google has rolled out the latest version of…
Why Facebook is buying WhatsApp for a whopping $19bn
Facebook is betting huge on mobile with an eye-popping cash-and-stock deal worth up to $19 billion for Internet Age smartphone messaging service WhatsApp. The surprise, mega-deal announced on Wednesday bolsters the world’s…
Facebook rejected WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton for a job in 2009
Facebook is betting huge on mobile with an eye-popping cash-and-stock deal worth up to $19 billionfor Internet Age smartphone messaging service WhatsApp. The surprise, mega-deal announced on Wednesday bolsters the world’s biggest social…
Facebook to buy mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion
NEW YORK: Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, as the world’s largest social network looks for ways to boost its popularity, especially among…
Android handsets are a lot cheaper than iPhones? Shocking!
While it might seem obvious that an Android phone is cheaper than Apple’s iPhone range, the average price of a phone running Google’s OS is now half the price of that from…
Galaxy S5 to launch with only a Full HD display?
Bored of S5 rumours? Well, here’s another: Samsung could be struggling to make enough high-res screens Last week we’d have bet heavily on a few inalienable truths about Samsung’s next flagship phone:…
Apple iOS 7.1 close to final release
Many people didn’t understand how Apple could take so long with iOS 7.1, though we have been able to detail the company’s progress every step of the way. We have learned that…
More users will login through mobile: Facebook
Facebook expects a decline in number of users logging on the social networking website through PCs globally, especially from the US and other developed markets of Europe and Asia. The California-headquartered firm…
Bharti Airtel set to acquire Loop Mobile in a Rs 700-crore deal
MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel is set to acquire Loop Mobile in a Rs 700-crore deal that may be announced as early as this week in what will be the first consolidation move in…