... ook chat, WhatsApp Messenger, Google Hangouts and Snapchat, have no “end-to-end” encryption to secure user communications, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US digital rights campaigner. ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
... g through WhatsApp and WeChat platforms. The rumor cited an unnamed security firm boss as saying that Lai placed short bets on 2,000 units of HSI futures (the version spreading on WhatsApp said it was ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
... g service WhatsApp. The price tag rose an additional US$3 billion to roughly US$22 billion because of the increased value of Facebook's stock in recent months, according to Reuters. WhatsApp, which ha ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
... ssions on whatsapp and Facebook. No single voice directed the next step but the protesters arrived at a consensus nonetheless. Such flawless execution would not have been possible without the social m ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
... tation of WhatsApp messages between Pistorius and Steenkamp showing they had argued and from the defense indicating they were in a loving relationship. Known as the Blade Runner because of his prosthe ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-12
... of China, Whatsapp of China and Twitter of China [as our customers]. How can we miss the YouTube of China?" Brian Johnson, vice president of worldwide sales at Nexmo, told EJ Insight in an interview. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
... bal rival WhatsApp and homegrown giant WeChat, were surprised about a month ago when they suddenly discovered the mobile internet-based service was blocked on their smartphones without any explanation ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-12
... r through WhatsApp instant messages and emails outside office hours, and sometimes even in the dead of night. The situation lasted for several months before she died after suffering a stroke that rend ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-27
... ly member WhatsApp), but there can't be too many Hong Kong users aren't always online for chat, a game or an item of news. And Facebook is always the center of action rather than Twitter or Weibo. Now ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-20
... id on her WhatsApp account she felt she didn't have a place in her friend's heart, referring to the bride, because the lai see she received from the couple was "below market rates". She got HK$200 (US ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-19
... etes with WhatsApp and Tencent Holdings' WeChat. Last year it had sales of US$1.5 billion, compared with WhatsApp's US$20 million. Revenue comes mostly from sales of virtual items for mobile games and ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-16
... n that of WhatsApp. The IPO could value LINE at more than US$9.8 billion. That said, LINE's real strength lies in minting money. It generated sales of US$5.1 billion last year, mainly by selling items ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-04
... sition on Whatsapp at US$19 billion, Economic Times said. As the business of LINE has grown, the company is inviting users to create new stickers on a Creators Market platform that was launched last m ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
Facebook has asked European Union antitrust regulators to examine its US$19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp, in an attempt to avoid other antitrust reviews by individual countries, t ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-29
... ng space, Whatsapp is a solid investment in real-time mobile communications, while Slingshot could be another tool to lure the youngster market. Taken together, these three apps could be Facebook's gr ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
... ducation. WhatsApp takeover Investors have been concerned that teenage users may be drifting away from Facebook in favor of alternative online services such as Snapchat and WhatsApp, which the company ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-17
... ly active WhatsApp user is worth US$42.22 while the corresponding figure for Facebook is US$142.19. Applying WhatsApp's MAU valuation to Tencent's WeChat would price the Chinese app at US$11.48 billio ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-28
After last week's blockbuster Facebook-WhatsApp deal, the internet industry appears set for more excitement in the coming months. According to media reports, Chinese online media giant Sina Corp. is l ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-26
... platform WhatsApp, Tencent's stock just got an unexpected boost. Mark Zuckerberg is paying US$19 billion for WhatsApp, whose user numbers compare with those of Tencent's WeChat (half a billion at la ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-26
There was no other deal to touch it for the week. On Wednesday, Facebook announced it was paying US$19 billion for smartphone messaging service WhatsApp in a deal that prices each user at around US$42 ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
