Facebook swallows Oculus VR

The  Facebook has secured the VR goggles manufacturer Oculus VR for 2.3 billion U.S. dollars and is the second billion purchase within just two months. The payment of the purchase price is 400 million U.S. dollars in cash and 1.6 billion dollars in shares. A bonus in the form of a 300 million U.S. dollar equity stake get the Oculus-founders, if the pre-set targets have been achieved. The data glasses Oculus Rift has so far...

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WhatsApp has 480 million users

According to a report by the news magazine Focus in the online edition of 23 March 2014, the short messaging service WhatsApp has become one of world's 480 million users. Monthly average of 15 million new users would be won and even though WhatsApp was taken in February of Facebook. In February, the provider in Germany rose by 1 million to increase its user base significantly to 30 million users. Opposite Focus reported the WhatsApp-founder...

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Internet is 25 years old

The Internet celebrates its 25th anniversary at March 13, 2014. The foundations for today's World Wide Web (WWW) put the British computer expert Tim Berners-Lee while he had designed an information network, which consisted of databases, computers and networks. As a tool he used the HTML programming language with which it was first possible to reproduce images, videos and sounds texts on the Internet. The first arose simple...

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Dailymotion, the French nugget, Yahoo! turned the page

Remained in the Orange fold since Arnaud Montebourg prevented the sale of Yahoo! Dailymotion, the French platform video sharing multiplies agreements and projects. Six months after the decision of the Minister of Productive Recovery Arnaud Montebourg, to prevent the sale of 75% of Dailymotion U.S. group at Yahoo!, the French video sharing website online writes a new page in its history in the lap Orange, a shareholder since...

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Gmail now displays the default image

On his blog dedicated to Gmail , Google announced Thursday a new default for mail received from users. The images will now be displayed by default, contrary to the practice hitherto observed. Until now, when you receive an email in your Gmail box , the images were included by default invisible. You had to click on a text "display images" or "always display images from sender" for access. However, Google announced...

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Spotify launch a free mobile streaming service

According to the American press, Spotify announce December 11th service music streaming free on mobile. Until now, it had only one offer at $ 9.99. Soon in Spotify mobile streaming free?  REUTERS / Sean Gardner Spotify launch a free service of mobile music streaming 11 December, according to the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch . So far the mobile service was only available to subscribers to plan...

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Secure.me: Children fuse on Facebook

Public Facebook posts can endanger young people. The web service Secure.me provides a quick security check. Technicgen shows how it works. The web service Secure.me helps tap out Facebook profiles for gaps and weaknesses. Since recently, young people under 18 are not allowed to post public messages on Facebook; far they could spread only among friends. The dangerous thing about it: If your offspring or one of his Facebook...

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Beats music service launched in January?

We were without news of Beats Music, the music streaming service launched in partnership between the audio and the leader of Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor brand. The service could finally be launched in the month of January. The information comes from the website All Things Digital Wall Street Journal . According to information from the U.S. website, gleaned from "people familiar with the matter" , Beats...

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Yahoo with a new Home

The U.S. online company Yahoo has its home at the optimized design for smartphones and tablets. The message stream can be adjusted according to personal preferences. In the new design modules for the weather, financial market and Flickr are included. The localized at home shows need for the latest news of Facebook contacts. The company has experienced years of declining advertising revenue and conversion under the new boss...

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What's new with Dropbox

The cloud service Dropbox has to be adjusted by the cloud offer packages for private and business customers were merged. Users therefore need to use the cloud storage, only one user account. The management of private and business data is then only possible through this one account. Previously this was not possible and required two accounts. In the future, customers can access personal and business data. For access via...

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