Facebook reported fourth-quarter profits of $701m (£462m), a 34% increase on the same period a year ago. Advertising revenue grew by 53% to $3.59bn, with nearly 70% of that coming from mobile ad sales.
On Wednesday, Kik announced it has 200 million registered users, which certainly makes it competitive  although it’s much smaller than services like WeChat, WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.
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Popular smartphone messaging service WhatsApp has been made available on web browsers for the first time. Jan Koum, the firm’s CEO, made the announcement on his Facebook page.
Popular messaging service WhatsApp is imposing 24-hour ban on people trying to access its service via an unauthorised app.
Big data analytics specialist Teradata has acquired Appoxee, a Tel Aviv-based mobile marketing and engagement SaaS provider. Teradata said the move will allow it to offer more mobile-focused digital marketing services as part of its marketing cloud portfolio.
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As part of his plans for new surveillance powers, announced in the wake of the recent shootings in Paris, David Cameron wants to block WhatsApp, iMessage, Snapchat and other encrypted messaging apps if he wins the next election.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen took to the stage at CES 2015 to talk a little about the company’s plans for the next year. One of his major goals is still to monetize BBM.
Three months after being acquired by facebook, WhatsApp have announced that they now have 700 million monthly active users, with users sending over 30 billion messages a day.
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LG Electronics announced today that new products set to debut in the United States during the first half of next year – from appliances to air solutions to home entertainment devices.
Smartphone app developer, Confide, launched an ad campaign on Tuesday, offering the business version of its self-destruct tool to entertainment studios, networks and labels for free, in perpetuity.
Canada Revenue Agency has destroyed all text message records of its employees and has disabled logging of these messages in the future,
Google has released version 1.0 of its new Android development IDE, Android Studio. Android Studio will continue to receive updates on four different release channels.
