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Even better is the venue that Acton, Koum and venture capital investor Jim Goetz chose to sign the sales documents. They drove a few blocks from the WhatsApp headquarters to a vacant building literally on the other side of the tracks: the former social services office where Koum once stood in line to collect food stamps.

According to research firm NPD, Sony's PlayStation 4 was the top selling video game console in the US during the month of January, edging out Microsoft's Xbox One. VentureBeat puts the figures at around 280,000 for the PlayStation 4 and 145,000 for Microsoft's Xbox One. On a cumulative, global basis, Sony has sold about 5.1 million PlayStation 4s, while Microsoft has sold 3.4 million Xbox Ones, according to data compiled by VGChartz.

RT @Techmeme: Proof of concept captures all SSL traffic via Apple's goto fail exploit (@dobes / ZDNet)

RT @Techmeme: Proof of concept captures all SSL traffic via Apple's goto fail exploit (@dobes / ZDNet)

RT @Techmeme: Japan's financial authorities not stepping in to help investors recover Bitcoins from Mt. Gox

RT @Techmeme: Japan's financial authorities not stepping in to help investors recover Bitcoins from Mt. Gox

RT @waltmossberg: Longtime Microsoft executive Julie Larson-Green shifts to new role in services. via @InaFried

RT @waltmossberg: The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange has disappeared, but is bankruptcy next? via @DelRey

RT @mikegrehan: Facebook's WhatsApp adding voice calls

RT @meyerweb: Wondering if @johnallsopp and I will applaud or give the side-eye @codinghorror’s followup to . Expecting the former.

On April 22, the Su­preme Court is sched­uled to hear Amer­i­can Broad­cast­ing Com­pa­nies v. Aereo, a case that has sig­nif­i­cant im­pli­ca­tions for a tele­vi­sion in­dus­try un­der­go­ing pro­found changes, as well as chal­lenges from up­start com­peti­tors like Net­flix and Am­a­zon. Among the broad­cast­ers most sub­stan­tial threats is Aereo, a two-year-old com­pa­ny that op­er­ates in 13 cit­ies and con­tin­ues to grow. On Mon­day, it an­nounced plans to of­fer its serv­ice in Austin, Tex., start­ing next week.

For its Sync in-car sys­tem, which con­nects to mo­bile phones for ac­cess to mu­sic and oth­er digi­tal ser­vices, Ford in­tends to use soft­ware called QNX made by Black­Berry rather than the em­bed­ded ver­sion of Win­dows, Micro­soft’s op­er­at­ing sys­tem, ac­cord­ing to two peo­ple briefed on the au­tomak­er’s plans who spoke on the con­di­tion of an­o­nym­ity be­cause the plans are still pri­vate.

However, there are no countries where Windows Phone is outselling both Android handsets and the iPhone. Because it is always selling fewer than one or the other (or both, as is the case in many big European countries), it is continually falling further behind the three real mobile ecosystems (Google Android, non-Google Android in China, iOS). The chances of Nokia on its own ever catching the iPhone for installed base - which, remember, is the total of phones in peoples’ hands that has accumulated over years, not one month’s sales - in key territories such as the US and Europe are below minimal.

Samsung is known to pre-load a lot of applications a.k.a bloatware on its Galaxy devices. When the Galaxy S4 was unveiled last year, the company received a lot of flak because its bundled applications left only about 9GB of free internal storage space on the 16GB variant.

Twitch has released an number of impressive stats showing just how popular the self-described "social experiment" has been: 1,165,140 unique players issued over 122 million commands while over 9 million unique people viewed the game a total of 36 million times. The peak number of simultaneous viewers was about 121,000, and all told, people watched Twitch play Pokémon for over a billion minutes. The game got big enough fast enough that Twitch had to make changes to its server configuration just to handle all the traffic.

Mark Penn, the former aide to the Clinton family, is becoming the company’s chief strategy officer.

Google’s Android tablets have overtaken Apple’s iPad in at least one statistic: market share. Tablets running Android accounted for 61.9 percent of sales in 2013, research firm Gartner announced on Monday, making this the first year that Android slates outsold iPads. Don’t shed too many tears for Apple though: It sold 70.4 million iPads during the year which is nearly double that of Samsung’s tablet sales.

The origin of the "selfie" shot was a little different. Ms. DeGeneres, in the days leading up to the broadcast, decided she wanted to take "selfies" during the show and ABC suggested she use a Samsung since it was a sponsor, another person familiar with the matter said.

Dish Network took a big step toward such a future with a deal announced Monday with Disney. The agreement opens the way for the satellite TV service to live-stream Disney-owned channels like ESPN and ABC over the Internet to customers' smartphones, tablets, video game consoles and other devices.

RT @gigaom: Verizon gets highest marks in RootMetrics’ new network tests, but AT&T keeps its speed crown

Getty Images' profits haven't cratered like music conglomerates: its profits actually increased nearly $100 million from 2007 to 2011, thanks in part to digital licensing. Still, the digital shift has been hard on photographers, with professional stipends increasingly replaced by smaller payments to amateur or freelance photographers. Part of Peters' promise is that the new embeds will open up larger flows of money down the road.

Satoshi Nakamoto's real name is.... Satoshi Nakamoto. And he lives in Southern California!

Apple just added external Retina display support in a recent beta of OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, According to 9to5mac. 4K monitors can now run the operating system at a pixel-doubled resolution, like on a Retina MacBook Pro. It could also be a sign that Apple is getting ready to release a long-anticipated external retina display.

Meanwhile, the user named "Satoshi Nakamoto," who posted one of the original descriptions of Bitcoin on a Web forum when it was launched in 2009, has written a new one-sentence post, reading simply: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."

The idea floated out there for a while before it became reality, at CERN or anywhere else, but what Berners-Lee was proposing came to be known as the World Wide Web. That makes today, March 12, 2014, as good a day as any to celebrate the web’s 25th birthday.

EA’s servers for Titanfall are completely down right now, after struggling off the mark at midnight on launch day and requiring an emergency patch. The game was playable for a couple of hours after that, but then users started reporting connection errors and being randomly kicked out of game sessions. As the day drew to a close, more and more users found they were unable to connect and play Titanfall, until EA finally pulled the servers down entirely. As of right now, the PC version of Titanfall is experiencing “unexpected downtime” with no ETA for when the game will be back online.