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Facebook to acquire WhatsApp mobile chat app

By JOHN Peterson
December 04' 2012

It is speculated that social giant Facebook is to take over WhatsApp, a well known cross-platform mobile chat programme. The original source of this news comes from TechCrunch.

However, the site has no information about the acquisition price range and at what level the talks have been reached so far.

The WhatsApp app was launched in 2009 by California-based firm Santa Clara. The app is compatible with Android, Windows Phone, iOS, BlackBerry and Symbian platforms. It delivers text messages, as well as photos, video and audio contents.

The ad-free version of the app gets 100 million users every day and is available in 250 countries across the world, claims Santa Clara.

Last year in October the company revealed its chat app serves 1 billion text messages per day, which is around 41,666,667 text messages per hour, 694,444 per minute and 11,574 per second.

In a blog post then the company stated, "it was a small step closer towards our goal: providing a great mobile messaging system for a global market, regardless of your handset."

The WhatsApp Messenger app has also received amount of criticism very recently from security and mobile researchers. It is alleged the authentication process of the app is a bit risky in terms of security. Several bloggers have also called the process as a "security nightmare".

A recent research file says local data base storage encryption could be decoded.

Have you used WhatsApp? Do share your experience with it and whether you felt any security threat.

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December 04, 2012 | 0 comments

India Asks Facebook, Google, Others To Pre-Screen Users' Content

By CITIZEN Journalist
December 06, 2011

SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS - Tension brews once again between the Indian government and social media and Internet companies in the country. The telecom ministry demands to Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and others to screen users content in human and remove offensive material before it is being uploaded.

Over last three months the Indian government is in talks with the Internet giant India office to put a monitoring mechanism on what is being uploaded by users.

IT & telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said the government does not believe in censorship, but believes in self-regulation.

According to the executives of these giants, the materials uploaded in their social platforms are in line with US laws and community standards.

Indian national daily Hindustan Times reported Internet companies saying broad action to the large number of users are impossible.

Facebook has 25 million users in India and more than 10 million users are with the Google products.

No doubt there are a lot of social media and internet users in India. To suggest pre-screening all the users’ content by human beings is a job of impossible. If other Asian countries follow India asking the same question to internet companies, it is like asking social media to shut down. It is the time for site's administrators to balance between individual against defamation with the right to freedom of expression.

Indian Telecom & IT Minister Kapil Sibal

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December 06, 2011 | 0 comments

What's Trending At Twitter: A Lab42 Findings

By STAFF Writer
August 21, 2011

TECHNOLOGY NEWS - Lab42 asked five hundred Twitter users recently about how they use this social media site, what makes them determine whom to follow, which celebrities do they follow, and many more such questions. Below is the result of the findings:

How often do you access Twitter?

33% - multiple times a day
33% - daily
19% - a few times per week
5% - a few times per month
6% - rarely/never

Where do you access Twitter from most often?

64% - Twitter.com website
16% - mobile application
10% - Twitter client such as Tweetdeck, Hootsuite etc.

How often do you Tweet?

42% - more than once per day
23% - daily
17% - a few times per week
9% - a few times per month
9% - rarely/never

Which of the following best describes why you decided to join Twitter?

33% - a friend recommendation
30% - to see what it was all about
17% - I have a lot to say/ Tweet about
15% - to follow celebrities or brands
5% - Class project/ requirement

How do you find new users to follow?

69% - friends suggestions
47% - searches
44% - recommendation from Twitter
31% - promoted Tweets

How many brands do you follow?

10% - none
31% - 1 to 5
20% - 6 to 10
18% - 11 to 20
10% - 21 to 30
3% - 31 to 50
8% - 51+

Why do you follow the brands?

66% - to get discounts
48% - to participate in contests
47% - they have interesting Tweets
30% - customer service




Which of the following celebrities do you follow on Twitter?

Lady Gaga - 33%
Barack Obama - 41%
Snooki - 27%

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August 21, 2011 | 0 comments