Tag: WhatsApp
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Personal Data & Facebook
Personal Data not considered personal anymore? Is apathetic lack of stimulation the drive behind Facebook’s continued monopoly? When faced with the multitude of sins that have come out since the Cambridge Analytics/Facebook debacle, why do people continue to use the social media site? Clearly, for business related users then the need to be on Facebook […]
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WhatsApp launches video calling for everyone
The wait is over, those of us without iphones can now have facetime, thank you. Whatsapp have officially launched video calling for over 1 Billion users worlwide across iOS, Android and Windows phones. Following a series of user reports on finding the feature enabled in Beta versions of Whatsapp on Android and Windows, the chances […]
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Whatsapp is Now Subscription Free – But There’s a Small Catch
WhatsApp has announced that it will be making a change to its business model and will be going subscription free from today onwards. However, there is a small catch which is being introduced in place of the minimal annual fee. Jan Koum the CEO of Whatsapp, the popular Facebook-owned text-replacement service which currently tallies up […]
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WhatsApp Voice Call Feature Spotted
WhatsApp is one of the most popular text based instant messenger apps around at the moment, with recent user figures saying that the service has over 700 million users globally. The WhatsApp app runs on Android and iOS, as well as Windows Phone operating systems on mobiles and tablets, as well as a recently released […]
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WhatSIM – Dedicated WhatsApp SIM Card Goes on Sale
A dedicated WhatsApp SIM card has been launched offering unlimited chat for a whole year at a cost of just €10. ZeroMobile has produced the WhatSIM which has no network allegiances and can work from almost anywhere. It does this by automatically seeking out and piggybacking a connection off of more than 400 mobile carriers […]
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WhatsApp Grows To 700 Million Users
WhatsApp has been going forward in leaps and bounds with regards to user numbers – the messaging network now boasts a user base of 700 million, and apparently messages sent on the service every day total to around 30 billion. The numbers we see today in the tech world get more staggering every year, and […]
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Samsung’s ChatOn service will be shut down next year
You may have heard the rumours surrounding Samsung’s ChatOn instant messaging service, in that it would be slowly disbanded on a region-by-region basis during the beginning of next year. When questioned about the future of the IM service, Samsung initially denied reports that the ChatOn service would be coming to an end or scaled back, […]
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Messenger app Viber introduces new social gaming
The popular instant messaging app Viber which has around 209 million monthly active users, has announced that it will be expanding into games, following in the footsteps of Line, We Chat and also Kakao. It’s been a relatively quit year for Viber; it was bought by Japan’s Rakuten for $900 million back in February this […]
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Skype has announced a new messaging app: Skype Qik
Skype have been known for their long haul video calls and messaging service for a long time now, and have done very little in the way of change up until now. Noticing the popularity of Snapchat and Whatsapp, Skype have announced a new app known as Skype: Qik. Available on smartphones only, Qik is […]
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WhatsApp Could Get VoIP (Voice over IP) in Future Update
With WhatsApp now a Facebook owned app following the £19-Billion deal which was completed last week the talks turns to what the future holds for the popular messaging service and it’s hundreds of millions of active users on Android and iOS devices. WhatsApp has become the widely used replacement for standard text and MMS messaging […]
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Facebook Completes $19bn WhatsApp Acquisition
Facebook has completed its bid to buy WhatsApp becoming the legal owner of the messaging app for Android and iOS smartphones. After the $19-million deal was first rumoured and then officially confirmed back in February 2014, the purchase of WhatsApp got EU Commission approval last week and Facebook was able to seal the deal yesterday […]
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EU Approves Facebook’s WhatsApp Buyout
The EU is constantly vigilant for the encroachment of foreign products and tech into the EU market, which of course removes revenue from countries within the union and also makes competition from new companies within the union virtually impossible. It also works to ensure fairness within EU markets, making sure each and every business has […]