services (24% of 2Q2014 revenues) (Tencent‚ n.d.c). Particularly‚ QQ instant messaging application and Wechat social application were the most widely known products among its diversified income sources. To achieve its mission --- ’to enhance people’s quality of life through Internet services’ (Tencent‚ n.d.b) and to remain competitiveness towards its main competitor Alibaba‚ Tencent not only stayed prosperous in messaging services and games‚ but also expanded to other areas including online security
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Story 1 – Facebook buys Whatsapp Facebook has bought instant messaging service Whatsapp for £11bn‚ giving Facebook access to Whatsapp 450 million users. The deal was split into £2.4bn in cash‚ £7.2bn in Facebook shares and £1.8bn in restricted stock awards for the Whatsapp founders and employees. Facebook has also paid a break fee of £1.2bn (Rushton 2014). Facebook’s acquisition of Whatsapp can be described as a hostile takeover in effort for Facebook to monopolize on the Internet market
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SMS messages from the handset - has only became available to non-GSM users in 2000. Ask a kid anywhere in the world‚ he or she would tell it is form of talking to another person(s)‚ with a cell phone using letters and not words. SMS means “short messaging service”. Meaning sending and receiving short‚ most of the time very short messages‚ to and fro one another. Texting also refer to the art and skills of using abbreviations and other techniques to create SMS and instant messages. Texting does not
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have on our writing skills. Does text messaging affect our writing skills enough to completely stop text messaging though? Since the cell phone was first invented it has advanced more than we can imagine. These days we can speak what we want our phone to do; including writing a text message. Doctor Martin Cooper invented the modern cell phone in 1973. Of course since then the cell phone has advanced and become a necessary item in our daily lives. Text messaging on cell phones is quick and easy. Writing
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The messages are transferred in a faster and easier way through texting. The text messaging menstruation is now widespread throughout the world. All age‚ gender and status in society is exposed in this way through cell phone message. Part of every human life‚ especially the professionals‚ we cannot deny the fact the great influence in the creation of this text message in humankind. Text messaging or Short Messaging Service is a short form of sending messages in text form using mobile phones. It
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In this assessment I will be discovering two contradicting attitudes towards texting. I will be investigating John Humphry’s article‚ “I h8 txt msgs: how texting is wrecking our language” together with David Crystal’s analysis of text messages looking at whether the English language in changing for the good or bad. Also I will compare the good points and bad points of both sides of the argument. John Humphreys- John Humphry’s is represented as though he is a well-educated individual who is deeply
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The project objective In our project‚ we are going to study the legendary instant messaging computer program ICQ in the users’ point of view. We will study the history of the ICQ‚ including how it was developed in 1996‚ how it evolved and how it was gradually replaced by other programs and become less popular nowadays. We will use some of the other instant messaging computer programs to compare with ICQ on the aspect of information transfer but still the main focus will be on ICQ. We find that
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Well-Being in Adolescence." Journal of Social Issues 58.1: 75-90. 2002 Print. O ’Connor‚ Amanda. "Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Student Writing?" School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Student Writing? Newhorizons ForLearningOnlineJournal‚ 2005. Web. 03 Oct. 2012. <http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/literacy/articles/instant-messaging/index.html>.
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increased. One of the responsibilities of the registrars’ office is to keep the students’ grades data secured for their academic records and purposes. The proposed Students’ Grade Inquiry of Isabela State University-San Mateo Campus through Short Messaging Service provides efficient and accurate grade reports. On the other hand‚ it intends to perform the following operations; study and develop the manual operation of the office of the registrar; find out what are the circumstances causes the delay
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