Facebook reportedly offered to buy Snapchat for $1 Billion

Facebook reportedly offered $1 billion to purchase the mobile photo messaging app, Snapchat. According to some industry sources, the bid was declined by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel.

Facebook has also acquired Instagram for the same amount last year and has introduced a similar mobile messaging service named Poke. Snapchat was said to have over 350 million photo messages sent daily by its users.

Both Facebook and Snapchat has not comfirmed this rumor.

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Google Play Hits More than 15 Billion Downloads

Google Play, the download service for Android users, surpasses 15 billion downloads, since its launch in October 2008. This is compared to Apple’s App Store’s 25 billion downloads, that opened in July 2008.

Google has not revealed, how many percentage of the 15 billion downloads are games. It is also unclear how many downloads were earned after rebranding its name to Google Play from its old name, Android Market.

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Max Payne Comes to iOS April 12th, Android April 26th

Rockstar Games has announced that the classic shoot-‘em-up videogame, Max Payne, will soon be available for iOS and Android devices.

The mobile version of the game will feature the classic Max Payne experience with HD graphics, high-resolution textures and will allow access to exclusive content via Rockstar Games’ Social Club service.

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StubHub Rolls Out Mobile Ticketing System

If you want to watch the San Francisco Giants today against Houston Astros, you no longer need to print ticket at home. All you need is a StubHub mobile ticket! Users who purchase from StubHub, via web or mobile app, can access mobile equivalents in the My Account section. Then, customers can show a bar code on their phones upon admittance to AT&T Park in lieu of printed ticket.

According to Mats Nilsson, StubHub’s director of product, they are the first ticketing company to introduce a fully functional large scale mobile ticketing system. And more than providing their customers a more convenient way in purchasing tickets, the company would also want to use the system to learn more about their buyers. However, StubHub’s mobile ticketing system has its own quirks. For one, app users need to zoom in and enlarge the bar code on a phone’s screen before presenting it upon check in.

But overall, the mobile ticketing system should appeal to StubHub buyers.

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Blending Mobile Marketing with Social Media

Tim Hayden, co-founder and chief marketing officer of 44Doors, said in the recent BlogWorld and New Media Expo session that ‘mobile’ binds a person’s online life to their real-world activities. As an entrepreneur, your customers are always on the go and your marketing needs to reflect that reality. However, a business must optimize its marketing efforts first before jumping into mobile marketing to reach its customers.

Posted after the jump are some ways to integrate mobile into your business’ marketing strategy.

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Netflix Streaming on Android Phone Soon

An employee and an online job listing confirmed that Netflix is creating a video streaming app for Android smartphones. According to the job post, the company is looking for an “Android Video Playback Expert.” Part of the job description states that Netflix is looking for an engineer that can help them create Instant Streaming client implementations on Android devices. With at least 10 years of development experience, and has already implemented video playback in an Android app.

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History Untold – 5 Forgotten Cellphones

Lately, too much cellphones were being invented. And many others were being thrown up. Shocking but in our history, there were those who failed to be on top or even on market for a month. These Cellphones were clearly forgotten by history.

There are lots of fallen celebs and now, I’ll list down 5 (five) of them. They now rest in peace, defunct, forgotten and a part of history. Taken at a young age, not until they are due.

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