With companies paying billions for messaging apps like Viber and WhatsApp, Samuel Burke looks at whether BlackBerry Messenger might save the company.
Danish e-takeway service buys Pakistani counterpart
The online food ordering and delivery market in Pakistan is getting really hot and spicy. Today, Denmark-based online food delivery company E-Takeaway reveals it has expanded into Pakistan by acquiring a local […]
Less than 48 hours after acquiring VR company, Facebook buys UK drone maker
Facebook is working on drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to far-flung corners of the world, in its second big bet on future technology in a week. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook […]
How many Europeans apps do you have on your home screen?
By Robin Walters As much as we’re determined to shine a light on the innovation and positive trends we see all around us in Europe, I’ve repeatedly said the goal of Tech.eu’s […]
Amazingly, the Swedish language is bigger on Twitter than Chinese (they have their own Twitter)
Languages of tweets: 1 English 2 Japanese 3 Spanish 4 Portuguese 5 Indonesian 6 Arabic 7 French 8 Turkish 9 Russian pic.twitter.com/L44HvK8uWa — Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) March 25, 2014
Facebook to become a Virtual Reality world
UPDATE! Reaction: “I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition.” Mark Zuckerberg writes: I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed […]
Messaging Services are the social networks of the future
Fifty billion messages a day, and a million new users daily: WhatsApp is currently the world’s most successful messaging service. Smartphone users send texts, images, videos and voicemails via apps like this. […]
Now, Google Glass will be available with basically all the Italian superbrands
Google just shared this on Google+ (not on Blogspot, which they normally use for PR): We’ve got some big news to share as we announce today that we have agreed to join […]
The Internet was funded by the Pentagon and still controlled by the U.S. government but that is about to change
The Internet began as a Pentagon-funded project called ARPANET, a network linking computers in some American universities and government agencies. Eventually, it was opened up to become the world wide web, connecting […]
LINE: A free alternative to WhatsApp worth checking out
With the uncertain future of WhatsApp, the need for a new, cross-platform messaging solution is apparent. The best replacement for these is LINE, a messaging program developed by a team at NHN […]