... Apple and WhatsApp). The investment is notable because internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. (00700.HK), e-commerce firm JD.com and restaurant review site Dianping.com are closely aligned, the news web ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
Messaging platform WhatsApp has announced a new service that will allow users to send messages from their desktops using web browsers. In blog post announcing the feature Wednesday, the company howeve ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service, is making things more difficult for customers who access it using third-party apps, the technology website TechCrunch reported. While the official app is the mo ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
Messaging service WhatsApp has grown to 700 million monthly active users, up from 600 million in August, technology news website Recode.net reported, citing chief executive Jan Koum. That’s more than ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... also drop WhatsApp and Instagram, both owned by Facebook. The Chinese official was paying a return visit to Facebook after Zuckerberg went to China in October when he met China's anti-corruption tsar ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
... ok bought WhatsApp Messenger for US$22 billion in cash and shares. The app allows voice, text and video calls as well as the ability to follow celebrities and share digital “stickers” with friends, th ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
... s sent on WhatsApp and other newer applications can be intercepted. An unnamed senior police official said newer messaging apps are not covered by the ordinance because they were not widely used at t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... ands like WhatsApp and Line, which have cleaner reputations. Tencent itself isn't helping the situation by using a half-hearted promotion strategy in the US, as highlighted in a new report on some of ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
... incoming Whatsapp or other message can distract someone who is trying to sleep, Chan said. Hong Kong Christian Service supervisor Lee Chin-hei suggested that students lay down some rules among themse ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
WhatsApp is trumpeting the usefulness of a newly introduced feature, but the message isn't getting through to many of the instant messaging service's four million users in Hong Kong. A survey by Apple ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-07
... family's Whatsapp instant messaging account. There is a video clip of the girl, who does not mention her name, that is being widely shared on the internet. In it, she tries to express her thoughts a ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
... 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
