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WhatsApp hits 800M monthly active users, stays on pace to reach 1B users by year's end — WhatsApp Hits 800 Million Users — 1 Billion by Year-End? — “What I'd say around messaging is we're pretty early in that cycle,” Zuckerberg said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call.
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Comcast to bring two-gigabit Internet service to Bay Area, boost existing tiers — Comcast said Friday that it will bring its 2-gigabit symmetrical Gigabit Pro service to San Francisco Bay Area consumers in May, sidestepping Google and its own fiber plans. The company also said it will boost … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Bad software update kills many Wink smart home hubs — Now for the downside of a house loaded up with “smart” devices to allow remote control and monitoring: turning your home into a computer means computer-like problems. Today's example comes from the Wink Hub, a $50 device sold … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says experimental UDP-based transport protocol QUIC improves Google search load times by 3%, ramps up usage in Chrome — Google Wants To Speed Up The Web With Its QUIC Protocol — You may have never heard of it, but if you are a Chrome users, chances are you've used Google's QUIC protocol already.
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Comcast, TWC will meet with Department of Justice for the first time since the merger was announced to negotiate concessions that could ease regulatory approval — Comcast and Time Warner Cable to Meet With DOJ to Negotiate Merger — Regulators examining whether Comcast lived up to NBCUniversal deal concessions, sources say| Mandi Woodruff / Yahoo! Finance: |
Funds left in Google Wallet Balance will now be FDIC insured — YAHOO FINANCE EXCLUSIVE: Google Wallet just got a lot safer — Google (GOOGL) is making a big change to its mobile payment service, Google Wallet, Yahoo Finance has learned. Funds that are left in Google Wallet will now be FDIC-insured … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings — It's been a bad week for Google in Europe, with the Competition Commission on Wednesday adopting a Statement of Objections regard its shopping comparison service — marking an escalation of a five-year long antitrust investigation.
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Mini Augmented Vision, BMW's augmented reality glasses prototype for Mini cars — Mini Augmented Vision is a cool concept trying to solve Google Glass failings — Hands-on: BMW and Qualcomm make a convincing case cars are the best place to start AR.| Luke Bailey / BuzzFeed: |
British company Social Chain prospers running a network of big viral Twitter accounts, faces accusations about plagiarism and troubling advertising practices — Meet The Company Secretly Running All Your Favourite Social Media Accounts — A group of twentysomethings in Manchester are taking …
Tweets: @wssmedia, @margarita and @lukelewis
| Robert Bartley / FierceMobileIT News: |
Google makes Android for Work available for any device running Android 4.0 or higher — Google makes Android for Work available on nearly all Android devices — Google pushed Android for Work to its Play Store on Thursday, making the container technology it announced in February available …
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ACLU: at least 28 inspector general websites for whistleblower reports and the State Department terrorist tip site do not use HTTPS — Why confidential tips to the government may not be confidential after all — Got a hot tip about federal waste, fraud or corruption?
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