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Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Facebook to Discontinue Email Service

Facebook has announced on Monday it will close down the @facebook.com email service that was available for users beginning in 2010.

The service is retiring and users are being notified via email about the closure of the service, and emails sent to the @facebook.com email address will be forwarded to their primary email address connected to your account.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Facebook buys WhatsApp

In a play to dominate messaging on phones and the Web, Facebook has acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion.

That’s a stunning sum for the five-year old company. But WhatsApp has been able to hold its weight against messaging heavyweights like Twitter (TWTR), Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Microsoft’s (MSFT, Fortune 500) Skype. WhatsApp has upwards of 450 million users, and it is adding an additional million users every day.