Few Points Mark Zuckerberg Stressed @ MWC

Gist! Gist!! Gist!!!
Apparently, Mark was up yesterday at Mobile World Congress and just as I thought, he was actually there to evangelize about his "affordable internet" project
He wasn't there to justify Facebook’s WhatsApp purchase
Facebook just bought WhatsApp for $19 billion, so obviously Kirkpatrick asked what was going on there. But Zuckerberg initially changed the conversation to Internet.org.
He was there to justify Internet.org
Internet.org, which Zuckerberg founded last year, launched as a partnership between Facebook and six mobile services companies ( click hereto read all you need to know about it or watch the video below).
“This is why I started Facebook,” Zuckerberg said. He admitted that Internet.org was going to lose money for a long period of time, but he still wants to do it. “There’s no clear plan that I can say today, that this will be good for Facebook, but I can say it will be good for the world.”
Zuckerberg noted that he lacked a clear plan for monetization when he started Facebook as well, but he believes that if they successfully connect everyone, there will be a way to reap the benefits of an Internet.org-connected world.
He’s looking for three to five more partnerships with carriers on Internet.org
Kirkpatrick asked what Zuckerberg wanted from carriers, seeing as Mobile World Congress is chock-full of them. Zuckerberg emphasized that Facebook is looking for just a few intensive partnerships. “For the next year, we’re really just looking to work with three or five companies that are really serious about trying to connect everyone in their country using free basic services,” he said.
Facebook actually wants to minimize data use
Zuckerberg talked about the company’s purchase of data compression startup Onovo and the company’s efforts to make apps more data-efficient. That’s why the company is working with Ericsson to open something called the Innovation Lab on its campus. This lab will help other app makers tweak their programs so they use less data.
Apparently Internet.org is a coalition, not just a Facebook-only project.
Zuckerberg emphasized that Internet.org is a collaborative effort. It was pretty unconvincing.
Facebook defriended Snapchat
An audience member asked if Facebook was still interested in Snapchat and Zuckerberg made a face like he just bit into a poo-covered pretzel. When Kirkpatrick repeated the question, Zuckerberg said, “No.” And then he chuckled and said that Facebook was done buying companies for a while, since they had just made the WhatsApp purchase.
AirtelBlog.

BBM FOR NOKIA

I Just go hint on nokia official twitter handle that bbm for nokia is here. I will be bring up more detail later

Microsoft Skydrive Now OneDrive

Airtel Nigeria: Microsoft Skydrive Now OneDrive: Yesterday, Microsoft changed the name of its cloud service platform from SkyDrive to OneDrive. With this new name, Microsoft aims to make...

Carrot Fitness App

Airtel Nigeria: Carrot Fitness App: Most fitness apps try to nicely encourage you to lose weight. Carrot Fit is not like these apps. The first thing it does is declare itself...

Airtel Nigeria: Nokia To Unveil Android Powered Device

Airtel Nigeria: Nokia To Unveil Android Powered Device: Longing to have an Android Powered Nokia? This might be it.

GOOGLE ACQUIRES A NEW COMPANY.ADS SECURITY COMPANY

Concerned about Ad fraud on the internet? Well, you should read this gist Just about 24 hours after Facebook got into a deal with WhatsApp, Google announced its purchased spider.io, a 3-year-old company that will provide ad fraud-fighting technology to the search giant. "Our immediate priority is to include their fraud detection technology in our video and display ads products, where they will complement our existing efforts," Neal Mohan, vice president of display advertising at Google, wrote in a blog post. Mohan added that Google hoped to improve its ad metrics over time to give advertisers a clearer assessment of how their campaigns are doing. Google didn't disclose terms of the deal. Given Spider.io's size — the company has just seven employees — it's more of an aqui-hire. Spider.io, which is based in London, was founded in 2010 by Douglas de Jager, who had previously cofounded another company called Byteplay, which was acquired by Zoopla. Spider.io made a name for itself in March 2013 when it identified a botnet called Chameleon that it claimed cost advertisers $6 millionin revenues. Such botnets work by simulating clicks. Advertisers, who think the clicks are real, are charged anyway

Nokia to Unveil Andriod devices. Nokia Andriod

Longing to have a Android Powered Nokia? This might be it. Rumours that primary Windows Phone OEM Nokia has been two-timing Microsoft by keeping an Android phone project on its backburner have been doing the rounds for a while now (aka the rumoured Nokia No rmandydevice). But the Wall Street Journaltipped more fuel on this fire, citing “people familiar with the matter” confirming that Nokia will unveil an Android powered device at the Mobile World Congresstradeshow in Barcelona nextweek

BBM NOW AVAILABLE FOR ANDRIOD 2.3 O.S BBM 2.0

You can now use bbm on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Just download and install the BBM 2.0 for Android from Google Play.

ZUCKERBERG ACQUIRES WHATSAPP

I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire WhatsApp and that their entire team will be joining us at Facebook. Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by building services that help people share any type of content with any group of people they want. WhatsApp will help us do this by continuing to develop a service that people around the world love to use every day. WhatsApp is a simple, fast and reliable mobile messaging service that is used by over 450 million people on every major mobile platform. More than 1 million people sign up for WhatsApp every day and it is on its way to connecting one billion people. More and more people rely on WhatsApp to communicate with all of their contacts every day. WhatsApp will continue to operate independently within Facebook. The product roadmap will remain unchanged and the team is going to stay in Mountain View. Over the next few years, we're going to work hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect the whole world. We also expect that WhatsApp will add to our efforts f orInternet.org, our partnership to make basic internet services affordable for everyone. WhatsApp will complement our existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools for our community. Facebook Messenger is widely used for chatting with your Facebook friends, and WhatsApp for communicating with all of your contacts and small groups of people. Since WhatsApp and Messenger serve such different and important uses, we will continue investing in both and making them each great products for everyone. WhatsApp had every option in the world, so I’m thrilled that they chose to work with us. I’m looking forward to what Facebook and WhatsApp can do together, and to developing great new mobile services that give people even more options for connecting. I've also known Jan for a long time, and I know that we both share the vision of making the world more open and connected. I'm particularly happy that Jan has agreed to join the Facebook board and partner with me to shape Facebook's future as well as WhatsApp's. Jan and the WhatsApp team have done some amazing work to connect almost half a billion people. I can’t wait for them to join Facebook and help us connect the rest of the world