Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 billion: 90 Seconds on The Verge
Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 billion: 90 Seconds on The Verge
2014-02-19
it's Wednesday februari nineteen to
twenty fourteen I'm David Pierce and I'm
excited to be the one to premiere the
first full-length trailer for guardians
of the galaxy k mu why does nobody tell
me these things this is 90 seconds on
the verge I'm hosting Facebook just
picked up multi-platform messaging
service whatsapp for sixteen billion
dollars over 450 million people use
whatsapp every month it's total
messaging volume facebook says is nearly
the same as standard text messaging
Facebook's been looking for a killer
messaging service for years and it may
have just bought one facebook says
what's up will continue to operate
independently and retain its own brand
which sounds a lot like how it's been
treating the Instagram acquisition
Google glass is still new to most of the
world and because of that Google has a
few general etiquette suggestions the
company has posted a list of do's and
don'ts for members in its Explorer
program and it's largely based on
feedback from the current group of
so-called explorers the do's include
taking advantage of voice commands and
using screen lock to prevent anyone from
using glass without permission Google's
main point however is to not be a creepy
glass whole saying all it takes is one
person using glass the wrong way to turn
off business owners and curious onlooker
finally kanye West is teaming up with
author and professional internet troll
Bret Easton Ellis for a movie while the
script has since been written Ellis
isn't providing any additional details
saying quote it's in Kanye I can only
imagine the kind of beautiful dark
twisted fantasy nightmares that go on
there that's it for this up stories
coming up tomorrow I audition for the
role of Hawkeye in the upcoming mash
musical it's gonna be spectacular I must
have it it's gonna be spectacular it's
gonna
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