Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com reports in its latest publication, "Asia-Pacific M-Commerce Snapshot 2014", that growing adoption of smartphones and tablet computers is changing the way people shop online. ...
Tags: Asia-Pacific, E-Commerce
A new report by Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com, “Global M-Commerce 2014: Smartphones and Tablets“, covers the latest trends and developments in mobile shopping. Yücel Yelken, CEO of yStats.com ...
"With this question my brother and I started an interesting conversation which ended in underneath proof of concept. The tldr [sic] answer is: "Yes, that is possible." Those lines are from the question-and-answer posed on a Tuesday blog ...
Tags: Android application, WhatsApp chat history, instant messaging app
Facebook, in a major push to expand its business on smaller screens, has agreed to buy the mobile messaging app WhatsApp for US$16 billion, the companies said Wednesday. Facebook plans to pay $12 billion in shares and $4 billion in cash ...
LG has officially kicked off the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas with the opening press conference of the show, presenting a suite of new consumer electronics products including Ultra HD and curved OLED displays, a curved smartphone and ...
Tags: LG, Home Appliances, OLED and Webos Tvs, Smartphones, Fitness Tech
Internet giant Tencent has teamed up with Future TV, a subsidiary of China Network Television, and television maker Skyworth Group to jointly produce WeChat television - televisions that are integrated ith the company's mobile messaging ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, TV, WeChat TV
Payments giant Visa Europe has had its communications network upgraded by telecoms giant BT, in a move that BT claims has enabled the firm to process about €2m of payments every minute. The network provides connectivity for Visa ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Chinese online 3C retailer JD.com required all of its employees to use Yixin, a mobile instant messaging (IM) tool similar to WeChat, when they conduct business communications. It said in an internal email on August 26 that in order to ...
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Reports suggest that BlackBerry is looking at spinning off its BlackBerry Messenger service as a standalone business, positioned to compete with such consumer stalwarts as WhatsApp and Viber. While BlackBerry has so far refused to comment ...
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Nokia's latest advanced feature phone, the Asha 210, comes with a physical key to access WhatsApp messaging, as well as software clients for Twitter and Facebook. The launch of the new member of the Asha family follows Nokia's ...
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Chat Heads, the buzzy messaging feature released as part of Facebook's Home software for Android-based smartphones, is now coming to the iPhone and iPad. The app, which is designed to let users chat with their friends even while they are ...
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The Nimbuzz messaging app for the BlackBerry 10 is the only messaging platform to integrate GTalk, Yahoo and Facebook Messenger into a single BlackBerry application, enabling BlackBerry users to send unlimited chat messages and share ...
Tags: Nimbuzz messaging app, BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry application
Mobidia Technology, Inc., a provider of mobile analytics, today released new insight into mobile usage of messaging and VOIP applications. Mobidia's data highlights the continued and growing importance of these applications to smartphone ...
Tags: Mobidia Technology, mobile analytics, mobile usage of messaging
With its future in the balance, the company until now known as Research In Motion launched its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, two new handsets and a new company name on Wednesday. The new operating system brings the BlackBerry ...
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It’s finally go time at Research In Motion. After delays that have tested the resolve of even its most enthusiastic customers, the Canadian company will finally launch its BlackBerry 10 OS on Wednesday and the stakes couldn’t be ...