interesting for markets google is strengthening its hardware business it s just struck a one point one billion dollar deal with taiwanese electronics company h t c the deal puts two thousand engineers from age he sees a smartphone division under google s roof the internet giant is trying to bolster its position in a sector dominated by apple and samsung the move could allow google to better integrate its arm draw its smartphone software with its own hardware google expects the deal to close by early twenty eighteen provided it gets the all clear from regulators. stock is declining despite yesterday s announcement offer a in eighteen billion dollar deal for its memory chip business investors are worried by a looming accord to battle with western digital the u.s. hard drive maker bit in the first sale but was rejected in favor of a group that includes apple and a dell desperately needs the proceeds from the asset sale heavy losses and
controversy could mean big business. app developers are now putting out smartphone software where they claim can help folks hide from the government s prying eyes. are these apps getting popular in. very. sales of those apps are soaring. one said they re up 400% there are half a dozen countries selling ans to make it difficult if not impossible for the government to monitor your private communication. the content of the calls are trampled using down lead able software that must be on bothç phones taking partner conversation. the encryption service we run this is under the government s own data it would take all of the world s supercomputers put together, 44
life. this is my family. that is our abc world news story. i m where the wheels are turning home why i keep returning well we pretty much live on our smartphones. if you are on facebook a lot, like diana is, will you, we are doing a newscast. you may be interested in the latest offer. twitter, twitter. the newest facebook phone is called home. just introduced. good morning, brandi. reporter: good morning, there has been buzz about this for months. mark zuckerberg decided to take the leap and thrust facebook into the middle of the mobile world. the long rumored facebook phone is here. we are finally going to talk about that facebook phone. ceo mark zuckerberg revealed the smartphone software that runs on top of android phones and puts facebook front and center. the custom home screen is called home, which zuckerberg says it designed around people, not
this is my family. that is our abc world news story. i m where the wheels are turning home why i keep returning well we pretty much live on our smartphones. if you are on facebook a lot, like diana is, will you, we are doing a newscast. you may be interested in the latest offer. twitter, twitter. the newest facebook phone is called home. just introduced. good morning, brandi. reporter: good morning, there has been buzz about this for months. mark zuckerberg decided to take the leap and thrust facebook into the middle of the mobile world. the long rumored facebook phone is here. we are finally going to talk about that facebook phone. ceo mark zuckerberg revealed the smartphone software that runs on top of android phones and puts facebook front and center. the custom home screen is called