F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
WhatsFace: Facebook to snap up WhatsApp for $19B in cash, stock
Boom! Did you see that coming? Facebook says that it has reached an agreement to acquire WhatsApp, for a total of about US$16-billion, including…
Social messaging apps to go past the 2 billion user mark in 2014
Look, we already know social messaging apss are big. WhatsApp now has 350-million active monthly users and WeChat, its biggest rival, went past the…
Here’s the problem with BBM for Android and iPhone
BlackBerry is understandably making a big deal about the 10-million downloads of BBM for iPhone and Android it saw in the first 24 hours….
WhatsApp is now bigger than Twitter
There have been tons of mobile instant messaging services over the years, but few have had the kind impact WhatsApp’s managed to gain since…
