Top Stories of the Day // October 29, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Oct 29, 2014

JOSH CONSTINE WhatsApp’s First Half Of 2014 Revenue Was $15M, Net Loss Of $232.5M Was Mostly Issuing Stock Facebook disclosed financials of its $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp for the first time today, and it looks like the 600 million user messaging app's... read more

SARAH BUHR Google[x] Reveals Nano Pill To Seek Out Cancerous Cells read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS W3C Declares HTML5 Standard Complete More than four years ago, Steve Jobs declared war on Flash and heralded HTML5 as the way to go. You could be forgiven if you thought the HTML5 standard -- the... read more

ALEXIA TSOTSIS Why Is Kim Kardashian At A Tech Conference?! Because she is co-creator of one of the most popular apps of 2014. Because she is poised to make $200 million in cold hard cash from a mobile app this year.... read more

NATASHA LOMAS Windows Phone Shrinks In Android-Dominated Europe, As New iPhones Boost iOS’ Share The latest 12-week smartphone sales figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, up to September, indicate that Windows Phone's already small share of the smartphone... read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Google Fit App Now Available For Android Devices read more

SARAH PEREZ Former Google Wallet Head Launches Poynt, A “Future-Proofed” Payment Terminal read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Room to Grow  The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve... read more

Foundation: Biz Stone On Moving From Artist To Entrepreneur  In our latest Foundation interview, I sat down with Jelly CEO and co-founder Biz Stone. We discussed his... read more

InstantAPI Lets You Build An API In An Instant  “In the world of cloud computing, APIs are the new currency,” Microsoft’s VP of its developer... read more

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