Mobile Minutes: BlackBerry, Samsung join for security; WeChat struggles; Nokia plans return; Secret vs. Whisper
BlackBerry partners with
Samsung on mobile security
BlackBerry has made a deal with Samsung that will offer BlackBerry's mobile
security on Samsung's Android-powered devices.
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WeChat struggles to lure
new users amid WhatsApp rivalry
The messaging application, which took China by storm, posted its slowest active
user growth on record as it struggles to attract new customers in Western
countries. Shenzhen-based Tencent is cutting back on marketing and sales
spending to focus overseas expansion on more ?hospitable? markets, Chief
Strategy Officer James Mitchell said without offering specifics.
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Nokia says vanishing
consumer brand may return
Don't call it a comeback yet. But Nokia is thinking about how to revive its
brand name in consumer markets just months after selling off its former
flagship mobile phones business to Microsoft for more than $7 billion.
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Anonymous messaging app
Secret distances itself from Whisper
The anonymous messaging app war is on. A co-founder of Secret, an app that lets
users send public messages anonymously, tried to distance the app from rival
Whisper, which last month appeared to have been caught compromising its users?
privacy. The Guardian, a U.K. newspaper, reported that Whisper was secretly
tracking its users.
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