We recently explained that Facebook is flourishing worldwide despite a perception that it declining in the West, and a new survey of Internet users shows the social network is winning the online dating battle in emerging markets.
Market intelligence firm Jana — a well respected source for taking the emerging world’s pulse on tech topics — surveyed 1,500 Internet users aged between 18 and 30, asking them which sites they turn to when they want to meet members of the opposite sex.
While Tinder and other red-hot Western apps haven’t got into Africa, Asia or Latin America, there are many dedicated love sites — such as Badoo or Match.com — but Facebook trumped them in many countries, including those below:
It remains to be seen if (and how) Facebook’s global dominance will be tested in emerging markets as smartphone adoption increases and larger numbers of people go online for the first time, with apps and mobile browsers their primary Internet experience.
As messaging apps become increasingly prevalent — particularly in Asia, where they rival Facebook and Twitter — they are becoming popular platforms for dating too. Friend suggestions, location-based chat and other features encourage connections with new people and the possibility to meet your match online.
Related: Despite claims of a decline in the West, Facebook is stronger than ever in the rest of the world
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There have been plenty of rumors and leaks, but LG has now made the G Pro 2 official after announcing details of its latest flagship smartphone today.
The device looks much like its predecessor — the G Pro — and it comes with the latest Android 4.4 (KitKat) operating system, is powered by a 2.26 GHz quad-core processor from Qualcomm. It is slightly wider and features a 5.9-inch full-HD display — larger than the G Pro’s 5.5 inches — with a 1920 x 1080 resolution. There’s a 13 megapixel camera on the back, while the front-facing snapper comes in at 2.1 megapixels and has its own flash. Under the hood is 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage — naturally there’s space for a micro SD card to boost that.
Available in white, red or titan grey, the G Pro 2 features a bundle of propitiatory LG software, including a range of video and photography features like 4K ultra HD video capture, post-capture ‘magic’ depth focus, and 20-photo burst mode. LG made its ‘Knock On’ tap-to-power-on feature standard across its devices, but the G Pro 2 takes that a step further with ‘Knock Code,’ a feature that lets users active the display by tapping one of up to 86,367 programmable combinations.
There’s no date on when the phone will launch, but LG will be showing it off at Mobile World Congress next week. Stay tuned for a closer inspection from TNW at the show.
Astronaut Mae Jemison on interstellar travel: ‘We can’t do this with just half the population’
Feb13
At the MAKERS Conference on women leadership this week, Google[x] VP Megan Smith, astronauts Cady Coleman and Mae Jemison and Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe took the stage to discuss the importance of increasing the number of women in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.
Jemison, who is the first African-American woman to go to space, emphasized that, as women become a greater part of STEM education and industries, it’s important for women to be in the room “helping to make the choices.”
She talked about her involvement with the 100 Year Starship project, which aims to send humans on an interstellar journey in the next 100 years, and how an endeavor of that magnitude must be a team effort.
“We can’t do this with just half the population,” she said.
Jemison continued with a quote from authors Will and Ariel Durant: “The future never just happened. It was created.”
“We have an opportunity to create the future and decide what that’s like,” Jemison added.
Headline image credit: Ye Aung Thu / AFP / Getty Images
Local Obamacare enrollment jumps 50 pct. in January
Feb12
on February 12, 2014
at 11:25 pm
Posted In: Affordable Care Act, Around the Web, health care, health reform, Indiana, Kentucky, Medicaid, mobiletopnews, Obamacare, Ohio
Enrollments in the online marketplaces created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rose by at least 50 percent in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana during January, a new Obama administration report out Wednesday shows. Nearly 3.3 million Americans have signed up for private health insurance plans since October through the online marketplaces created by […]