Facebook's WhatsApp adding voice calls after Facebook Acquisition

As reported by multiple news platforms, they announced that WhatsApp now has 330+ million daily users and 465+ million monthly users.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Jan Koum "WhatsApp CEO" said the voice service will be free and begin rolling out to users within the next couple of months.

Media reports put WhatsApp's revenue at about $20 million in 2013.

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg defended the price paid for a messaging service with negligible revenue. 

WhatsApp Released New Version 2.11.186 with Privacy Settings and Hindi Support

WhatsApp has released a new update version 2.11.186 with interesting features and brings Privacy Settings. This latest version enables Hindi for the Android smartphone operate on android 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher version and users can enable Hindi from keyboard settings or download the Google keyboard from the Google Play Store.

You can access Privacy Settings option under the settings > account menu in WhatsApp, these features allows the user to change the personal information.

Another feature you can see the large thumbnails for video and save or share the Photo or Group icons

Facebook News Feed Product Manager Greg Marra Discusses Its New Look with Jennifer Van Grove of CNET

Facebook announced a revamp of its pages for desktop, which will begin rolling out this week, just days after revealing a new look for its News Feed.

Some of the major changes in the landing page on desktop are:

• In the right-hand column all posts from pages will now appear
• The left hand column will information about businesses like website, maps, cell numbers, business hours, videos and photos
• With information including number of ads running, post reach, page likes and unread notifications and messages.

If we talk about other landing pages or Tab

• Overview Tab:  This page insight, admins will see some key stats about the pages they are watching. 
• Posts Tab: This page insight includes a feature to view the past week’s most engaging posts from the pages you’re watching.

Across the social media platform Kenshoo and Oracle Social Cloud to provide actionable insights

Accounting to South by Southwest, Kenshoo, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer and provider of cloud based digital marketing solutions and predictive media optimization technology, announced integration with Oracle Social Cloud as part of Oracle recently announced open application programming interface based on social media solutions.

This integration will allow analyzing the performance of Owned Social Campaign, Earned Social Campaign and Paid Social Campaign and it will helpful to fine-tune their marketing strategies.

Both the company Kenshoo and Oracle said in a release announcing the integration between Kenshoo with Oracle Social Cloud will enable better coordination and conversation between social community managers in charge of organic content and marketing or agencies managers handling paid media.

Kenshoo, the global leader in predictive media optimization technology, today announced from South By Southwest, a Kenshoo integration with Oracle Social Cloud. The news comes as part of Oracle's newly announced open API-based paid social media solution for its customers.

Panasonic P31 smartphone launches at RS 11,990

Panasonic today announced the launch of its latest smartphone - P31, in India. The Panasonic P31 is priced at Rs 11,990.

This latest smartphone of Panasonic comes armed with below listed features:

• Dual SIM smartphone
• 5 inch touchscreen with 480x854 pixels resolution. 
• 1.3 GHz quad core processor
• Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) operating system
• 4 GB internal storage, and 32 GB micro SD card slot.
• 8 megapixel autofocus rear camera capable of capturing full HD images with LED flash light
• Front it has a VGA camera for video calls as well
• HSPA+ (21 Mbps) connectivity and has WiFi for internet connection
• Bluetooth 4.0 for file transfers too. 
• 2000 mAh battery that promises 9 hours of talktime and 699 hours of standby on 3G networks
• FM with RDS, G-Sensor, Proximity sensor. Light sensor, E-compass, GPS

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Samsung Galaxy S III mini now available online with Android 4.2

Samsung Galaxy S III mini now available online with Android 4.2

Samsung has been looks all set to release the Galaxy S III mini with Android 4.2

Accounting to NDTV Gadgets Samsung Galaxy S III mini Value Edition is now listed as available in Netherlands at various online merchants for EUR 180, which translates to roughly Rs. 15,300. The phone is however, not listed on Samsung's official Dutch site.

The smartphone was first spotted by Gsminfo which claims that the Galaxy S III mini Value Edition features upgraded innards, when compared to the Galaxy S III mini that was launched in October 2012.

Features

• 4-inch display with a resolution of 480x800 (WVGA) pixels
• Powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Cortex A9 (unspecified chipset) processor,
• 1GB of RAM
• Android 4.2 Jelly Bean out-of-the-boxes
• 5-megapixel rear camera
• 8GB of built-in storage, which can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card

Dual SIM Nokia X Android Smartphone is going to launch by Nokia on March 10th in India around RS 8500

The Nokia X Android Smartphone will be available in India from 2^nd Week of March and its price is around Rs 8500 in India. Nokia X Android Smartphone is already display online on the Mobile Stores Websites.

Maktechblog.com was the first to display this update and media event is going to organize on 10^th March to launch of Nokia X Android Smartphone

Features	Nokia X and X+	Nokia XL
Display:	Nokia X and X+:  4” screens displays with a 800×480 pixel resolution	Nokia XL: 5” screens.
RAM:	512MB of RAM on the Nokia X and X+ gets 768MB of RAM	Nokia XL has 768MB RAM
Processor:	Snapdragon S4 SoC with a dual-core processor clocked at 1GHz	Snapdragon S4 SoC with a dual-core processor clocked at 1GHz
Memory:	4GB internal storage and micro SD cards up to 32GB in capacity	4GB internal storage and micro SD cards up to 32GB in capacity
Battery life:	1500 mAh battery, around 13 hours of talk time on 2G and 17 days standby time	1500 mAh battery, around 13 hours of talk time on 2G and 17 days standby time
Camera:	3 MP on the rear and no front-facing camera	Nokia XL 5MP auto-focus camera with LED flash on the back and 2MP front camera
Connectivity:	Nokia X and X+ have dual SIM slots, 3G cellular data, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.	Nokia X and X+ have dual SIM slots, 3G cellular data, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.
Color:	Nokia X is available in its Cyan, Yellow, Black, Green, White and Red colour variants.	Nokia X is available in its Cyan, Yellow, Black, Green, White and Red colour variants.
OS	Android	Android

Google Analytic Data Now Accessible From Your Google+ Company Page Dashboard

Now you can access Google Analytics Data from your Google+ Company Page Dashboard 

According to Daniel Waisberg, Analytics Advocate at Google, share the news on his Google+ page that Google Analytics data can now be accessible / viewed from your Google+ Page Company Dashboard.

Below images give you clear idea about Google+ and Google Analytic on common Dashboard:

This is unique feature added to Google+ Company Dashboard by Google to attract new users on Google+, where user can view Google Analytics Data if they linked to a website that has Google Analytics.

New Yahoo India Homepage Launch Today

New Yahoo India Homepage Launch Today

New yahoo Homepage layout launch today “Yahoo.in” which is more attractive and newly designed news feed is given more in detail, for example – try scrolling to the bottom of the feed on your devices (desktop/laptop, tablet or smartphone) which update real-time data with the latest news from Yahoo.

The slicker is more modern and intuitive than before, blue color theme is giving extra flavours to new home page

For more detail: http://in.yahoo.com

WhatsApp: Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion deal in cash and stock.

Facebook has announced to plans acquire WhatsApp for the equivalent of $19 billion in cash and stock. According to the source, Facebook has agreed to pay $12 billion in stock and $4 billion in cash for this acquisition. Additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to WhatsApp's founders and employees as part of the deal agreed by Facebook, which bring this deal price to $19 billion

WhatsApp already has over 450+ million active users every month and this is the so far Facebook largest acquisition in early 2013-2014.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp, founded in 2009 by former Yahoo engineers Jan Koum and Brian Acton and day by day is the most popular of a set of mobile messaging apps. The app served as an alternative option to SMS by letting users send messages for free across smartphone platforms. It currently has more than 450+ million people who use the app every day.