Tag: $1 billion
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1 Billion Android Phones Shipped In 2014
Last year global mobile phone shipments broke a new record in terms of the sheer volume of smartphones shipped. Over 1.3 billion handsets made it into the wild from manufacturers, and it’s partly due to the incredible popularity of Android. the mobile phone operating system from Google has recently hit one billion units shipped. Out […]
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Google Invests in SpaceX Satellite Internet
The idea of a global internet service, floating above the Earth in some way or another, has already been explored and exploited in a small way by Google through their Google X Labs Project Loon, a system designed to project signals below an ever-present ring of atmospheric balloons. Now however, it looks like Google have […]
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PC Accessory Maker Razer Now Worth $1Bil.
Gaming peripheral maker Razer has just been valued at over a billion US dollars, according to a leaked internal memo passed to technology site TechCrunch by an anonymous source, obviously keen to hype the company’s continuing growth and awesome presence in gaming today. The undisputed king of high end keyboards and mice for the serious […]
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Kickstarter Reaches $1 Billion in pledges
Kickstarter, for those of you who don’t know, is a crowdfunding website for innovating projects. It’s basically a site where people pitch ideas they have and others can choose to give them money in the hope they use it to create the final product which the ‘backer’ will eventually receive. Why is this newsworthy? Kickstarter […]
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Facebook tops 1 billion monthly active users
“You don’t get a billion users without your share prices dropping.” Facebook has announced that it has one billion active monthly users in an official Facebook blog post today, and to celebrate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared the news: “This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you’re […]
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FTC officially allows Instagram sale to Facebook
The FTC has officially closed the case on the Facebook Acquisition of Instagram for 1 Billion dollars which will now pave the way for the deal to be closed and the two companies to combine and start launching new products. The FTC passed the deal unanimously in a five-to-zero vote, saying that “the deal may now proceed […]
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Facebook Buys Instagram For $1billion
Mark Zuckerberg has just updated his status to inform Facebook users that the social networking site will be buying popular photo-sharing site Instagram for a cool $1 billion. Instagram was first launched in October 2010 for iPhone users and has just recently released a version for Android too. In fact, when released, the app was […]