Globally most popular Whatsapp reaches one billion users

WhatsApp, a proprietary  cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones reached one billion users which is nearly one in seven people on Earth use the App each month to share vital information including text messages, images, video, user location and audio messages, during natural disasters, health emergencies, dating, growing a small business. WhatsApp began as a…

Facebook selects LeEco for Immersive canvas mobile ads

LeEco, Chinese Tech giant is one of the first few advertisers to be selected to use Facebook Immersive Canvas Mobile ads, a new experience which allows advertisers to use a mix of videos photos and other elements in new and compelling ways. It is an alternative version of a brand’s website but will load faster…

Facebook and Instagram are banning sale of firearms

Facebook and Instagram has announced that it is banning the users from advertising and selling privately firearms on its social network. The rule targeting people trading guns to one another on both social network following concerns that they were being used as a way to get around background checks. The latest development follows a string…

Facebook and Microsoft see £37bn added to their combined valuation

Facebook and Microsoft see a combine  £37.1bn ($53bn) added to their stock valuation, as £51.5 bn  ($73 bn) wiped out off the joint valuation of  Apple and Amazon. Large valuation swings in tech is because of investors wanting to move their money out of maturing technology markets and   into newer ones with better potential…

TICKS eclipses BRICS

TICKS is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Taiwan, India, China Korea and South Africa are the new kids on the block of the emerging world. The economies of China and India are considered to be the largest and Emerging market hedge fund capital reached record level in the first quarter of 2011…

Shell to takeover BG for £35bn

Royal Dutch Shell investors voted to groups’s £35 bn takeover of rival producer BG Group, making it the biggest energy deal of the decade. BG shareholders met today to formally approve the transaction  and will become effective from 15th February 2016, ending 20 years of independence, which had old British Gas. Ben Van Burden, Shell…

Facebook profits £2.03bn ( $2.9bn)

Fourth-quarter profits for Facebook, who now has 1.39 million active users each month, a 13 per cent increase, amounts to £ 462 m ($701m), a 34% increase on the same period last year. Advertising revenue grew by $3.59bn 53 per cent with 70 per cent coming from mobile advert sale. Total profits for the year…

Ethiopian Airline all-women crew aviation history

Ethiopian Airline made aviation history by dispatching its first-ever all-female crew from Addis Ababa to Bangkok, Thailand. Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said: “ Attracting more women to aviation jobs is one of the reasons for hosting the all-female flight, together with empowering women.. It is going to be very inspiring for all the women…