Source: Reuters
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WhatsApp suffers three hour outage just after Facebook acquisition
Call me unreasonable, but if I forked out $19 billion for something, I’d expect it to actually work. Mark Zuckerberg may have been thinking the same thing Saturday afternoon when WhatsApp went...
Facebook to acquire WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion
Facebook has bought popular messaging service WhatsApp in a landmark deal worth $19 billion in total. The transaction involves $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in stock and $3 billion in...
South Korea won’t use Huawei equipment for fear of Chinese spying
It has been alleged quite a few times that Huawei’s equipment might allow the Chinese government to spy and snoop around, these allegations lead to speculation late last year that Huawei could step...
California opens one of the world’s largest solar projects
Less than a hundred miles from the rim of the Hoover Dam, just outside of Las Vegas at the edge of dusty San Bernardino County, sits a symbol of how...
Deutsche Telekom rumored to be leaving the U.S. mobile market
For those unfamiliar, Deutsche Telekom is the parent company of US carrier T-Mobile. As you might have heard, there have also been talks that T-Mobile could be bought up by Sprint and...
Sprint reports smaller quarterly loss than expected and a subscriber increase
T-Mobile isn’t the only carrier adding customers. Surprisingly, Sprint too just laid down positive results, adding 58,000 new subscribers during the fourth quarter. Analysts had expected a loss of about 83,000...
Apple managed to silence Carl Icahn with its recent share buyback
Well played Apple CEO Tim Cook. You managed to silence Twitter happy, media loving billionaire investor Carl Icahn for a few minutes. In a letter to Apple shareholders, Icahn said he's...
HTC plans to focus more on the low-end smartphone market
Apple, despite not selling low-end handsets, is doing very well for themselves. Nokia on the other hand despite selling high-end handsets, has actually done better for itself by selling low-end...
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office make Bitcoin illegal
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office recently made its stance on Bitcoin abundantly clear. "Systems for anonymous payments and cyber currencies that have gained considerable circulation are money substitutes and cannot be used...
Yahoo is partnering with Yelp to beef up local results in its search engine
Yahoo has reportedly reached a deal to integrate Yelp reviews into its search engine results. The move is intended to help Yahoo increase usage of its search tools by improving local...
Data traffic on mobile networks will grow almost 800% by 2018
Networking experts are running out of superlatives to describe the coming tidal wave/explosion/cataclysm of mobile data traffic. Cisco last week said mobile data is expected to grow by 11 times...
Huawei accused of hacking India’s state-run telecoms carrier
If there's one thing that Indians have become increasingly paranoid about these days, it is the spectre of Chinese companies sneaking in malware and spying technology into telecom equipment and other hardware...
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