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WhatsApp and kin now more popular than good old SMS

WhatsApp and kin now more popular than good old SMS

For the first time, instant messaging on chat apps, such as WhatsApp, has overtaken the traditional SMS text message, according to new research. Almost 19 billion messages were sent per day on chat apps in 2012, compared with 17.6 billion ...

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Facebook Introduces Sponsored Stories to Ticker

  If you’re annoyed by the Facebook news ticker already, just you wait. Facebook confirmed today that it has introduced sponsored stories, or ads, to the ticker. “Sponsored Stories now appear in Ticker on the home page,” a Facebook spokesperson ...

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Ballmer: We’re beating Google in the cloud

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was winning the battle for productivity applications in the cloud, and when it’s winning, it’s taking customers away from Google. And in doing so, he invoked a little bit of Charlie Sheen in ...

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Dropbox CEO: We’ll integrate with everything

Cloud-storage startup Dropbox just closed a $250 million funding round, and now it has its eyes set on being the foundation of a future where we’re never without our data. Phone, tablet, TV, car, you name it. Dropbox plans to ...

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Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief

Scott Noteboom, the man who led Yahoo’s data center operations since 2005, has now joined Apple as the iconic consumer electronics maker expands into the cloud. According to LinkedIn, Noteboom is now a “distinguished gentleman” at Apple as of this ...

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