Feb 25, 2014

Telegram Saw 8M Downloads After WhatsApp Got Acquired


The App Store is a strange and whimsical bedfellow. It is a kingmaker, but with that comes the tears of the anointed, the displaced and the never-rans.

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BlackBerry Q20 Smartphone To Feature Trackpad And 3.5" Touchscreen

BlackBerry Limited (BBRY: Quote,BB.TO: Quote) unveiled a new flagship smartphone designed to deliver its full and distinctive QWERTY experience on BlackBerry 10. The company said that the new BlackBerry Q20 smartphone will feature the familiar and classic 'Menu','Back','Send' and 'End' buttons and the integrated trackpad to enable the fast efficient navigation and one-handed use that has endeared the brand to its QWERTY customers.

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Verizon: Heavy Web users should pay more


Heavy broadband users should help shoulder the cost of their traffic, but Verizon Communications does not give preferential treatment to some Web traffic, the company’s CEO said Monday.

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BlackBerry announces new phones, services

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — BlackBerry will release a low-cost phone in Indonesia in April and plans a broader release of a phone that restores a beloved row of control keys with a track pad.

The Indonesia phone, the Z3, will sell for less than $200 without subsidies, the company said Tuesday. It will later expand to other markets in southeast Asia. BlackBerry Ltd. CEO John Chen said a version with faster, 4G connectivity is planned for the rest of the world "sometime in the future before I die."

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Mark Zuckerberg Says WhatsApp Worth More Than $19 Billion

Facebook Inc. (FB:US) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said WhatsApp Inc., which his social-media company agreed to buy last week, was “worth more than $19 billion.”

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