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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.| Robert Bartley / FierceMobileIT News: |
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Galaxy S6, S6 edge review: Exynos is SoC to beat in Android space for the next 6 months, battery life effectively the same as S5, camera comparable to iPhone — The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge Review — As recently as the Galaxy S5, Samsung had a fundamentally different strategy from companies like HTC and Apple.| 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.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
After years of testing, Google has replaced the URL with the site name and breadcrumb trail in the mobile search snippets — Google Replaces A Site's URL In Search Results & Uses Its Site Name & Breadcrumb Path — Google announced they've begun replacing the URL within the search result snippet area … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Major Update to Office Sway Adds Focus Points, Interactive Charts and More — Office Sway received a major update today that adds image Focus Points, Accent highlighting, interactive charts, and easier document embeds to Microsoft's cloud-based app for dynamic, interactive web apps.| Danny Hakim / New York Times: |
Microsoft supports many groups lobbying for regulatory action against Google in Europe and US — Microsoft, Once an Antitrust Target, Is Now Google's Regulatory Scold — BRUSSELS — Not long ago, Microsoft was the scourge of European antitrust regulators. — It was fined not once, not twice, not thrice but four times.| Aaron Butcher / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft's new Maps app comes to phones with latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build, with guided navigation features from HERE maps, traffic data from Bing — Navigate the World with Windows 10 Maps for Phone — Hello! I'm Aaron Butcher and I'm the Group Program Manager for the Maps Team … | David McLaughlin / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: US Justice Department lawyers leaning against Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable, could submit recommendation next week — U.S. Antitrust Lawyers Said to Be Leaning Against Comcast Merger — Staff attorneys at the Justice Department's antitrust division are nearing a recommendation … | Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
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Google Says “Vast Majority” Of Ads On Its Platforms Will Be Encrypted By June 30 — Google has been gradually moving all of its online services to HTTPS encryption — you may even remember the excitement wayyyy back in 2008, when Gmail switched to HTTPS. — In a blog post published this morning … | C. Custer / Tech in Asia: |
Xiaomi CEO says company has invested in 20+ startups and plans to invest in a hundred more — Lei Jun: Xiaomi will invest in 100 more startups — This has been a big week for the Xiaomi ecosystem, as one of the companies in the Xiaomi fold just acquired Segway.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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App Spotlight: MessageWhiz SMS for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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