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Facebook to buy mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion

Facebook to buy mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion

Facebook will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, as the world's largest social network looks for...

07-Mar-2014
Israeli scientists shoot for the moon with dishwasher-sized spacecraft

Israeli scientists shoot for the moon with dishwasher-sized spacecraft

It's only the size of a dishwasher and weighs as much as giant panda, but its inventors are hoping this spacecraft will go where no other Israeli...

07-Mar-2014
Privacy groups ask FTC to block Facebook-WhatsApp deal

Privacy groups ask FTC to block Facebook-WhatsApp deal

SAN FRANCISCO: Privacy advocates have asked US regulators to halt Facebook Inc's $19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp until there is...

07-Mar-2014
World's biggest cyberattack detected, 360 million accounts, 1.25 billion email addresses hacked

World's biggest cyberattack detected, 360 million accounts, 1.25 billion email addresses hacked

LONDON: An internet security firm has stumbled upon a "mind boggling" and "Godzilla-sized" cache of personal data put up for sale on the online black...

07-Mar-2014