aving Lagos from the waves
This week we take you to Lagos, where rising sea levels are threatening to engulf densely populated coastal areas, and ask what can be done to stop the forces of nature. One project in Nigeria's largest city is planning to build an exclusive development on sand and land dug up from the ocean. Needless to say, it is controversial.
Our eco hero this week also understands the challenges of implanting a green mindset into a city. He is encouraging people in Ivory Coast to plant more trees to off-set the impacts of urban development.
Staying in Africa, we head to Mozambique where a professor is exploring the insect population as a means of assessing the state of the country's nature two decades after the end of the civil war there.
In Germany, we meet Berlin's honey bees who have found refuge on the rooftops of some of the city's most presitgous public buildings, explore the organic food movement, and look at the real possibilities of biofuel.
Join us. Before the event, during the event, or thereafter. You can't afford not to. We only have one environment.
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Video WhatsApp show of misleading it in Facebook takeover probes on WhatsApp. But the company is working carefully to avoid problems with spam messages, the documents show
The European Commission has charged Facebook Inc (FB.O) with providing misleading information during its takeover of the online messaging service WhatsApp, opening the company to a possible fine of 1 percent of its turnover.
However, the statement of objections sent to Facebook will not affect the EC's approval of the $22 billion merger in 2014, the Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.
Facebook becomes the latest Silicon Valley target of EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has demanded Apple (AAPL.O) pay back $14 billion in taxes to Ireland and hit Google (GOOGL.O) with two market abuse investigations.
The issue regards a WhatsApp privacy policy change in August when it said it would share some users' phone numbers with parent company Facebook, triggering investigations by a number of EU data protection authorities
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What's WhatsApp?? is A messages service that spans borders, devices
What in the world is Whatsapp
The online messaging platform has been catching on for a few years with younger users and international sets of friends, but a much larger audience noticed it on Wednesday, when Facebook Inc said it had agreed to pay $19 billion for the service.
It is a phone and mobile device app to send text, video and picture messages, and 450 million people use it monthly, some 200 million more than Twitter, according to numbers from the companies.
And it's adding a million users daily, which caught Facebook's eye.
Whatsapp works across different types of phones, across borders, and without ads. Unlike texts, there is no per-message charge, and there is no fee for international messages, which has helped make it popular outside the United States; Whatsapp charges a 99 cent annual subscription fee, which is waived for the first year.
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Win Apple plays soothing iPhone hold music
Apple is playing some soothing iPhone hold music. The tech colossus sold nearly 51 million smartphones despite maturing markets and a resurgent Samsung following its exploding-battery crisis. App-store sales also grew nicely, and more dividends and buybacks are on the way. That should pacify investors until Apple rolls out the 10th anniversary edition of its pioneering device.
Smartphone sales for all vendors globally have slowed, to only about 4 percent in the first quarter, according to research outfit IDC. In one way, that's a bad omen for $770 billion Apple. The iPhone generates more than 60 percent of its revenue and profit. At the same time, most customers have settled on either Android devices or Apple's.
Chief Executive Tim Cook is focused on milking these users in many ways. It's selling them more apps, storage, support and music.
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See video winner of iphone Israel chip designer Ceva rallies as iPhone win to boost profit
Shares in Israel's Ceva Inc hit a record high after firms specializing in dissecting and analyzing electronic devices revealed its chip technology is used in Apple Inc's iPhone 7 and 7 Plus phones.
Ceva licenses its designs to chipmakers such as Intel and Samsung, who embed its digital signal processors within their chip sets, reducing the time and cost it takes them to bring products to market.
These "teardowns", as they are known in the electronics industry, showed that for the first time Intel's thin modem, which uses Ceva's design, is in some versions of Apple's new smartphone. For the last several years Intel's competitor Qualcomm dominated the market for these chips.
"Since 2012 our numbers were down because of Qualcomm," Ceva Chief Financial Officer Yaniv Arieli told Reuters on Tuesday. "This year that's changing and our customers are successful in launching their own LTE chips," he added, referring to the chips used in 4G mobile communications
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Apple-Samsung iPhone Winner patent feud leaves U.S. top court strugglingThe fierce, big-money patent fight between Apple and Samsung left the U.S. Supreme Court groping for a solution on Tuesday, as the justices puzzled over how to discern the value of individual design elements in a complex product like an iPhone.
The eight justices heard arguments in Samsung's bid to pare back $399 million of $548 million it paid Apple in December following a 2012 jury verdict finding that it infringed Apple's iPhone patents and copied its distinctive appearance in making the Galaxy and other competing devices.
The $399 million penalty stemmed specifically from Samsung's violation of three Apple patents on the design of the iPhone's rounded-corner front face, bezel and colorful grid of icons that represent programs and applications
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Win new phone due, Samsung & iPhone dials down on safety message
After the damaging recall of its fire-prone Note 7 smartphone, you could be forgiven for thinking Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) would make a song and dance about battery safety in its new flagship phones, due to be launched in the United States on Wednesday.
But in the run-up to the launch, crucial to the South Korean technology giant winning back consumer confidence, its marketing effort so far makes little mention of safety.
"If you talk about safety, it presupposes a rationale for why, unconsciously, and they know this; and they also know the media will pick up that narrative," said Los Angeles-based Eric Schiffer, a brand strategy expert and chairman of Reputation Management Consultants
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