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Google Is Celebrating 1 Billion Users On Gmail

February 2, 2016 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

Gmail is celebrating 1 billions active users.

                               Gmail is celebrating 1 billion active users.

It was announced earlier today that the big company Google is celebrating 1 billion users on Gmail.

The world’s most valuable publicly traded company, Google, stated record earnings for quarter four of 2015.

It seems like it keeps getting better for Google. The new report contains details regarding  how many people are now using Gmail. And the result of this report is that one billion people now use Gmail on a regular basis.

The company’s CEO Sundar Picha added, in her declaration, that these are monthly active users.

For those who aren’t very familiar with Google’s Gmail history, here are a few things. Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well as via POP3 or IMAP4 protocols.

The company launched their email service back in 2004 and the service was originally available in beta. The service came out of beta in 2009, since they have also launched their new Inbox by Gmail app.

In June 2012, it became the most widely-used web-based email provider in the world, with 425 million active users.

In May 2015, the service had over 900 million users and it took only a few months for it to surpass the billion-mark.

Today, Google is celebrating the impressive record of 1 billion by thanking the users with a funny video on Twitter.

 

Thanks a billion for helping us make Gmail better and better!https://t.co/Rd82YqwGjl

— Gmail (@gmail) February 1, 2016

During the official statement, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai also noted that the growth of users has been fueled by mobile users.

The data shows it is normal, since Android has more than one billion users and users have been spending more and more time on their smartphones. It is, indeed, a lot easier to check the e-mail everywhere, on-the-go, and it significantly increases the frequency on which the clients use the service.

Apart from Gmail, Google also has many other products with one billion users, including its search service, Chrome, Play, YouTube, Android, and Maps.

A lot of tech companies have begun to break out active users among their various products.

Facebook is famous for this and these days it boasted that Whatsapp crossed the 1 billion monthly active user mark and that a number of its other products, including video, search, Instagram and Messenger, were on the same trajectory. Facebook’s platform has 1.59 billion monthly active users as well.

Talking about other services in the email branch, Hotmail, on the other hand, has around 400 million users. Yahoo is far behind with less than 300 million users.

All in all, compared to other email services these days, the true popularity of Gmail is showcasting.

Image Source: twitter.com; jess3.com.

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: 1 billion users, facebook, Gmail, google, Google Apps, record breaking, WhatsApp

Whatsapp Announced End-To-End Encryption For Millions Of Android Users

November 18, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

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After experiencing childhood in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Jan Koum, founder of Whatsapp figured out how to mistrust the government and despise its reconnaissance. After he moved to the United States and made ultra-popular messaging framework decades later, he pledged that Whatsapp would never make snooping simple for anybody. Presently, Whatsapp is following through on that anti-snooping pledge at a phenomenal scale.

Whatsapp reported on Tuesday that it’s incorporating end-to-end encryption, a move up to its privacy assurances that makes it almost unthinkable for anybody to peruse clients’ messages—even the organization itself. Whatsapp will incorporate the open-source programming Textsecure, made by security concentrated non-profit Open Whisper Systems, which scrambles messages with a cryptographic key that just the client can get to and never leaves his or her gadget. The result is for all intents and purpose un-crackable encryption for countless phones and tablets that have Whatsapp installed — by a few measures the world’s biggest ever implementation of this standard of encryption in a messaging service.

Moxie Marlinspike, Open Whisper System’s inventor and a well known software developer in the cryptography group said, “Whatsapp is incorporating Textsecure into the most prominent messaging application on the planet, where folks exchange billions of messages a day. I believe this is the biggest end-to-end encryption deployment ever.”

Textsecure has already been silently encrypting Whatsapp messages between Android gadgets for a week. The new encryption plan implies Whatsapp messages will now fly out the distance to the beneficiaries’ gadget before being decrypted, instead of simply being encoded between the client’s gadget and Whatsapp’s server. The change is almost undetectable, however Marlinspike says Whatsapp will soon add a peculiarity to permit clients to check each others’ identities on the basis of their cryptographic key, a resistance against man-in-the-center attacks that interrupt conversations. Marlinspike said, “Regular clients won’t spot the difference. It’s completely frictionless.”

In its beginning stage, however, Whatsapp’s messaging encryption is constrained to Android, and doesn’t yet apply to group messages, images or video messages. Marlinspike says that Whatsapp intends to expand its Textsecure rollout into other gimmicks and other platforms, including Apple’s iOS, soon. He wouldn’t point out a particular time period, and Whatsapp staff members declined to remark on the new encryption characteristics. Marlinspike says, the Textsecure execution has been in the works for 6 months, since soon after Whatsapp was acquired by Facebook last February.

So, for now, just Whatsapp’s Android users alone symbolize a huge new client base for end-to-end encrypted messages: Whatsapp’s page in the Google Play store records more than 500 million downloads. Formerly, Textsecure had been installed on just around 10 million devices running the Cyanogen mod variant of Android and around 500,000 different gadgets.

The only encrypted messaging framework that analyzes in size is Apple’s iMessage, which likewise claims of using a rendition of end-to-end encryption. As compared to Textsecure, nonetheless, Apple’s iMessage security has a few genuine weaknesses. iMessage doesn’t track which gadgets’ cryptographic keys are connected with a certain client, so Apple could basically make another key the client wasn’t known of to begin interrupting his or her messages. Also, numerous clients innocently back up their stored iMessages to Apple’s iCloud, which renders any end-to-end encryption debatable. Furthermore, dissimilar to Textsecure, iMessage doesn’t utilize an element known as “forward secrecy” that makes a new encryption key for each message sent. This implies that any individual who gathers a client’s encoded messages and effectively breaks a client’s key can unscramble all their conversations, not only the one message that uses that key.

Whatsapp’s rollout of such solid encryption to countless clients may be a disliked move among governments around the globe, whose scrutiny it could make significantly more troublesome. No doubt, Whatsapp’s client base is global, with extensive populaces of clients in Europe and India. In any case Whatsapp organizer Jan Koum has been vocal about his resistance to chipping in with government snooping. “I grew up in a society where all that you did was snooping on, recorded, squealed on,” he told Wired UK recently. “No one ought to have the right to listen snoop, or you turn into a totalitarian state — the sort of state I fled as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and opportunity of discourse. Our objective is to secure it.”

 

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: Android, apple, Cyanogen mod variant, end-to-end encryption, Europe, facebook, Forward secrecy, Google Play, icloud, iMessage, India, ios, Jan Koum, Marlinspike, messaging service, Textsecure, WhatsApp

500 million users now on Facebook Messenger thanks to Facebook’s forced policy

November 11, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

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The mobile messenger for chatting by Facebook now has more than 500 million users to its name. The company also claims that Facebook Messenger is one of the most widely used mobile messaging apps in the world. The messenger now logs in more than 500 million users monthly.

“This is an exciting milestone,” said Peter Martinazzi, Facebook’s director of product management, announcing the stat. Facebook’s main app has around 1.35 billion users; Facebook-owned WhatsApp has at least 600 million users. WeChat, owned by China’s Tencent, has at around 438 million users, as of this past August.

Facebook reached its milestone but it also angered most of its users along the way. The company began requiring people to download Messenger for mobile chat several months ago, drawing criticism from those who didn’t want to download a separate app for messages. Before that, Messenger had roughly 200 million monthly users, the company previously reported in April.

Some people still seem annoyed, or confused, about why Facebook made the change. Clearly on why Facebook forced users to download the app was one of the most popular online questions submitted in the lead up to Facebook’s first public town hall meeting last week.

Facebook thought it could provide a better, faster messaging product by separating it, was CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s explanation.

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: 500 million users on facebook messenger, facebook, facebook messenger, WeChat, WhatsApp

European Commission Consents Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition

October 3, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

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As per the official reports, verifying last week’s forecasts, the EC (European Commission), which is the major antitrust power of the EU (European Union), agreed on the Facebook’s 19bn acquisition of WhatsApp (cross-platform messaging application), which was initially publicized way back in Feb.

The European Union has announced its decision in a press release that they don’t think so that WhatsApp and the Facebook messenger are close rivals to suffocate other contestants within the messaging zone, and moreover, the grouping of the Facebook and WhatsApp will not decrease customer preference.

Certainly, the contract was approved in the month of April by U.S. Federal Trade Commission along with the condition that WhatsApp has to preserve its pre Facebook privacy practices.

Way back in May, WhatsApp requested the European Union to review the proposed merger instead of subjecting the deal to analysis in various countries in the European Union region.

Moreover, it has been reported that the European Commission sent several questionnaires to the competitor online messaging companies in the month July and afterwards, Facebook stated in its 10-Q form casing with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) about the extension of the deadline to close the acquisition by one year, to Aug. 19th, 2015.

European Commission also sent more questionnaires to several businesses including telecommunication operators, other social-networking sites and Internet-service providers.

 

The European Union says in one of its press release that:

The European Commission is authorized, under the EU Merger instruction, and planned the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook, both of the U.S. Facebook and WhatsApp both offer apps for smartphones which will permit customers to communicate by sending text, photo, voice and video messages.

It was founded by commission that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are not seems to be a close rivals and customers would have a wide choice of other interactions apps after the transaction. However these apps are distinguished by network effects, the inquiry revealed that the merged unit will continue to face enough amount of competition even after the merger.

WhatsApp is not considered to be more active in online advertising, from this the commission has analyzed, whether the transaction could reinforce Facebook’s position in the market and hamper competition or not.

Commission also analyzed the prospect that Facebook could introduce advertising on WhatsApp and WhatsApp as a latent source of user data for improving the objective of Facebook’s advertisements.

From this, the commission has concluded that, whether Facebook would initiate advertising on WhatsApp or start gathering WhatsApp user data, from this competition concerns are not raised.

Because of this even after the merger, there will be an enough number of substitute providers to Facebook for the supply of targeted advertising, and a large amount of Internet user data that are precious for advertising purposes are not within Facebook’s restricted control.

In charge of competition policy and EC Vice President, Joaquín Almunia says that: These types of customer interaction apps keep European citizens connected and hence, they are becoming increasingly popular. While Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are two of the most popular apps, most people use more than one communications app. We have carefully analyzed this planned acquisition and concluded that it would not obstruct competition in this active and increasing market. Customers will have a wide choice of consumer interactions apps.

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: Acquistion, Consents Facebook, EC, EU, European Comission, European Union, facebook, facebook acquire whatsapp, Joaquín Almunia, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, WhatsApp, WhatsApp Acquisition

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