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SMS growth in decline but still crushes mobile messaging apps
The Next Web published an article in August entitled “ How text messaging as we know it will die in 3-5 years .” In the article Niall Harbison argues that the advent of smartphones and apps such as WhatsApp results in users transitioning away from SMS to these alternative messaging options. So let’s try to see what we can find out. Here are the numbers we could find for some of the more popular SMS alternatives: WhatsApp crossed a milestone in October, when it announced sending over 1 billion messages in a single day.
Huge Internet milestone just around the corner: 100 million registered .COM domain names
The Internet’s favorite top-level domain is close to hitting a huge milestone. The .com domain is now on the brink of reaching 100 million registered domain names. It’s a real triumph for what is already by far the world’s largest top-level domain – it accounts for around 45% of all domain names
How big can China get on the Internet? Here are some mind-blowing numbers.
China is not only the largest nation on the planet, these days it’s also by far the largest on the Internet (which wasn’t always the case). It has twice as many Internet users as the United States. And it’s only getting started
