Twitter, Alphabet launch code for fast loading of heavy mobile content
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc have launched an open source code that allows faster loading of content-heavy Web pages on smartphones and tablets.
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In Myanmar, young programmers launch first-ever election app
By Aye Win Myint YANGON (Reuters) – Huddled in an open-plan office atop a tower block in Yangon’s scruffy downtown, a group of teenagers in jeans and T-shirts sifts through the list of candidates in Myanmar’s election and stares at their computer screens and mobile phones. Meet Team Pop Stack, which has just launched Myanmar’s first ever election app, and is racing to spread the word. Now they are targeting millions of hyper-active Facebook users in Myanmar, where mobile telephones and the Internet have spread rapidly since the end of military rule in 2011, and social media have a critical role in the Nov
Read moreSaudi’s Kingdom Holding pays $50 million to raise Twitter stake to 0.72 percent
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding has paid $50 million to double its stake in microblogging site Twitter Inc, the Riyadh-based company said on Wednesday. Kingdom Holding, the investment firm owned by billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, now owns 0.72 percent of Twitter, having originally invested $50 million in the tech company in 2011
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