On Wednesday, February 19, 2014, Facebook announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the mobile messaging service WhatsApp. The terms of the deal, as noted in Facebook's Newsroom, amount to WhatsApp receiving: "[A] total of approximately $16 billion, including $4 billion in cash and approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares."
If you didn't think the internet was everywhere, this may change your mind. Birds Eye, the leading manufacturer of frozen potatoes in Australia, and a major player in frozen foods internationally has taken your love of the internet and social media to new heights. Sure dinosaur, monster and character shaped french fries are nothing new. [...]
As we are rapidly approaching the launch date - Feb. 24 in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress of the new Samsung Galaxy S5, the news, leaks, and specs are coming out on an almost daily basis. There is an awful lot of pure speculation, but there are several features that are widely agreed upon.
King, the company behind such games as Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga, and Papa Pear Saga, has filed the paperwork to carry out an initial public offering (IPO). While King's games are well-known to be incredibly addictive, the Swedish company is also incredibly profitable. King's IPO prospectus provides the first public glimpse into the company's financials, and they are quite remarkable.
Much has been made of the massive $51 billion Russia has spent on the Sochi Olympics, spurring allegations of corruption and indulgence by contractors, government employees and leaders alike. But this isn’t Russia’s first extravagant project.
In even more Apple news, apparently the company has created an ingenious way to cut down on spam. on February 13, 2014, Apple filed a patent application entitled "Disposable Email Address Generation and Mapping to a Regular Email Account ."
Today's strange news comes to us from our neighbors to the south. A couple in the Mexican state of Sonora have just named their newborn child 'Facebook.'
"The Uncarrier", T-Mobile, is set to make some changes to their Jump program that will undoubtedly make big spending early adopters happy. T-Mobile's Jump program is the program currently allows customers to upgrade their device after a six month waiting period. At the end of the six month waiting period T-Mobile will pay the rest [...]
USA Today is reporting that Google is currently working on technology that will increase internet speeds up to 10x. While Google Fiber is already incredibly fast, the Sunnyvale company wants to increase it by an order of magnitude
On Tuesday, Feb. 11, Square and Whole Foods Market announced a new partnership. The goal of this partnership is, "to make shopping faster and more convenient with new on-the-go purchasing options."
