BlackBerry Ltd said on Thursday it has signed a agreement with EnStream LP, a mobile payments joint venture owned by Canada’s three large wireless carriers, to provide a secure platform for transactions between banks and consumers. Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry has been trying to reinvent itself under new Chief Executive Officer John Chen as its phones…
(NASDAQ:FB) Facebook has updated its Messenger app for iOS devices, giving users the ability to record and send 15-second video messages. Version 6.0 of the app also adds a feature called “Big Likes” — when you really like something, press and hold to send an even bigger “thumbs up” sign. The new version of Messenger…
This year’s World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it progresses in stadiums from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 40 percent of Facebook’s 1.28 billion users are football fans. On Tuesday, the world’s biggest online social network is adding new features to help fans…
Mark Zuckerberg and other members of Facebook’s board have been sued by a shareholder who claimed a policy letting them annually award directors more than $150 million of stock each if they choose is unreasonably generous. In a complaint filed on Friday night in Delaware Chancery Court, Ernesto Espinoza said the board was “essentially free…
Here is a video about NASDAQ:AAPL explaining the reasons why Apple stock split is a good sign for the shareholders of the tech company from Cupertino. In a video report from Marketwatch, Mark Hulbert says Apple’s stock may beat the market. The stockmarket expert sets a timeframe of 2016 for NASDAQ:AAPL to outperform the NASDAQ…
Once again, Twitter, Alibaba, Sprint and T-Mobile US are the major stocks in the news today. Sprint (NYSE:S) and T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS) have agreed on a $32 billion merger. According to a WSJ report, recent regulatory developments convinced executives at Sprint and T-Mobile US to develop their telecommunications companies with joint forces. A deal approval is…
