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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Feed SubscriptionGoogle X smartphone with Android 5.0.1 appears in benchmarks
It seems like the Motorola X smartphone should be hitting the market very soon and will be dubbed Google X. This revelation is based on a report by Android Headlines via a Japanese blog Rbmen. This report suggests that Motorola ...
Read More »WhatsApp “Bigger Than Twitter” With Over 200M Monthly Active Users
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum was on stage today at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference in New York City, where he said that the app is now larger than Twitter by monthly active users. He wouldn’t say exactly how many ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »John Mayer Clarifies: Twitter Isn’t Dead, Tumblr Is Just Better. Join Me.
Yesterday, we noted that during a recent interview in Los Angeles, singer John Mayer shared his thoughts about why Twitter was “over.” Today, on his Tumblr blog (appropriately titled One Forty Plus), he clarified a bit. In his post entitled, ...
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