lundi 18 janvier 2016

WhatsApp cancel the annual subscription fee



Whatsapp company revealed that it will cancel the annual subscription of one dollar fees in the coming weeks, and the announcement came on the Saint-Jean-com founder of the application whatsapp during his participation in the event Digital Life Design in Munich, Germany.
Whatsapp company owns about 900 million active users per month, which is owned by Facebook in a deal that has two years and worth about $ 22 billion.
The observers fear the Facebook seeking to enter whatsapp within their own ads or any other means belonging to the Facebook trade, and there was no clear signal from the company about the next direction for the application of correspondence.
The company has followed the same after the acquisition of its own business approach, which allows the use of the service is free for the first year and then the imposition of an annual subscription value of one dollar.
He noted Jean-com that this form of work is a problem for many people, and many of them do not have credit cards, and it should be noted the presence of other messaging applications such as Messenger for Facebook, which has 800 million monthly active users and at no cost to use.
He added Jean-com that the company will begin experimenting with the possibility of companies arrived with people, and admitted that he is not the subject decisive decision and did not develop a final plan yet.
It seems that the company Instant will focus on large companies in an attempt to earn cash by clients of these companies, consumers and even transactions service, which means that he may be the launch of customized corporate accounts.
Whatsapp service is now closer integrated platform in terms of service delivery, and are almost identical with Facebook Messenger, which turns into an integrated platform also.
The Facebook had abolished last year the need for an account on the social network to use Messenger allowing users to log on over the phone via their numbers only similar to the way the whatsapp
The whatsapp company clarification on how the application can work out in the future within a statement posted on its official website, "we will, starting from this year to test tools that allow you to use whatsapp to communicate with companies and organizations that want to communicate with them, so that you can communicate with your bank about transfers and deals, or communicate with an airline about the last trip. 

Qualcomm is working on a joint venture in China for server chips



Today announced that Qualcomm chip maker that it has signed an agreement with China's Guizhou Guizhou Regional Government to work on the development of advanced server chips in China jointly, in a move that could help to strengthen the efforts of the company to diversify its business in the market of mobile chips and chips server.

He has both sides to invest jointly in the amount of $ 280 million in the project, called the Hwachsantonj Guizhou name for semiconductor technology, which will be 55 percent of it belongs to the Government of Guizhou province and 45 per cent of it is owned by a subsidiary of Qualcomm.

Qualcomm and works similar to its rival company Advanced Micro Devices, and both the two companies are planning to make data centers rely on existing servers processors on the architecture ARM, a market which is dominated by rivalry Intel.

The Qualcomm had announced in October last year for the presence of samples belonging to the first stage of pre-production processors for servers based on the architecture ARM, and has a direct offer for the development of an experimental server platform, Balttaaon with XILINX chips and Mellanox companies.

The company operates similarly to many other US technology companies desiring to try to take advantage of partnerships with local companies to facilitate access to the Chinese market.

Where the Hewlett-Packard Company sold a majority stake in the work of servers, services, technology and business volume in China is a subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings to increase sales of HP products in government institutions in the country, while Intel Corp. said in 2014 that it planned to invest in the local chip companies to design phone chips mobile.

The joint venture will be registered in Guian New Area district of the province of Guizhou, with the presence of operations in the capital Beijing, and will be limited to the role of Qualcomm chips on the server license technology and provide research and development operations of the joint venture.