With the end of the decade on the horizon, analysis firm App Annie has compiled a list of the biggest mobile applications from the 2010s. Not surprisingly, Facebook and its family of apps dominate the most-downloaded list, but there are a few unexpected entries elsewhere.
Breaking up big tech companies wouldn’t solve the problem said Bill Gates
Gates is no stranger to antitrust regulators, having publicly gone against the US government during his time at Microsoft in a highly publicized antitrust case in the late 90s. That experience makes what he has to say all the more interesting. Bill Gates in a recent interview with Bloomberg Television’s Erik Schatzke weighs in on... Continue Reading →
How Tech market leaders generate their revenue
Source: Visual Capitalist
1 billion hours of video watched each day on YouTube
If you're looking for a video on the internet and it's not on YouTube, chances are it doesn't exist. The video giant has seen unprecedented growth the past few years and it's showing no signs of stopping. It's just surpassed the monumental mark of one billion hours of video watched each and every day. That's... Continue Reading →
Alleged backdoor discovered in WhatsApp could allow governments to read encrypted messages
An alleged backdoor in WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption protocol is said to have the power to allow Facebook or government agencies to listen in on unsuspecting users. WhatsApp has claimed that no one, not even Facebook staff, can access the messages of WhatsApp's more than one billion users. The alleged backdoor was discovered by University of California, Berkeley... Continue Reading →