The popularity of messanger apps is fuelling plenty of innovation on how to keep private chats secure Thanks to Facebook's $19bn acquisition of WhatsApp in October, messaging appa are one of Silicon Valley's hottest sectors - or biggest bubbles, if you're a sceptic A recent $62m funding round for Yik Yak, an app for chatting anonymously to people nearby that only launched in November 2013, can b..
Online news site's partnership follows an earlier deal with rival weChat, and follows rumours of a similar alliance with Snapchat Online news site BuzzFeed's initial growth may have been fuelled by social networks Facebook and Twitter, but its next frontier is likely to be messaging apps like its latest partner, Viber. BuzzFeed has launched a "public chat" channel within the app, which is owned ..
As our knowledge of surgical and diagnostic techniques has increased with time, so has the success rate of organ transplants. However, the number of patients who require organ transplants exceeds the number of organs available, particularily if the patient has a rare blood type or belongs to an ethnic minority where organ donations are even lower than normal. For example, although black people a..