a blockbuster purchase by facebook for at least $16 billion. the text messaging service will operate independently under its own name. what s app has 450 million users and adds another million every day. day. it s growing faster than twitter. and stock options could add another $3 billion to the price. facebook founder, mark zuckerberg, says it is worth it all. all right. at least one lucky ticket holder is about to collect one of the largest jackpots in u.s. lottery history. $425 million. the winning powerball numbers drawn last night are, 1, 17, 35, 49, 54. powerball number is 34. that one matching ticket sold at a chevron gas station in milpitas, california. that s near san francisco, which will get $1 million, by the way, for making that sale. too bad, too bad. one lucky person, i wonder if they know they won. they are probably just sleeping away.
good morning, i m john muller. i m marci gonzalez in for diana perez. here are some top headlines we are following this morning on world news now. there is at least one winning ticket in the $425 million powerball lottery ticket. sold in california, the first winning ticket sold since christmas day. there s another delay in the trial for james holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people in a colorado movie theater 18 months ago. a judge has ordered a new psychiatric examination. the miami dolphins have firedsonnive line coach jim turner and head athletic trainer kevin o neal for their roles in the team s bullying scandal. dolphins owner steven ross say both men exhibited poor judgement at times. facebook is paying as much as $19 billion for what s app. a text messaging service that is
report from the sunday times in london, which is owned by the parent company of our network. according to article sunday times, facebook s move is part of a trial to potentially launch its own text messaging service. that spokesman points out that uses facebook mobile agrees to the terms and conditions. the terms and conditions spell out they give facebook to access text. he goes on to say, i quote, other than limited texting we haven t launched anything so we are not using the permission. if we do it will be obvious to users what is happening. let s take it to legal panel and mercedes cowlin. mercedes law firm does represent facebook. it s almost as if you are parents give you permission to drink beer but you don t. but you don t exercise it.
let s talk about this texting story. you were tweeting about it earlier day. there s a new text messaging service, alison, that appears to be named after tiger woods. by the way, the company, they are calling themselves tiger text, says it has no affiliation to tiger woods. they are just, you know, clearing that up, but but what does this service entail here? well, yeah, really makes you wonder if it s not named after them, but we ll put that aside for a minute. so this is all about, if you like to text, and you have something to hide, this is exactly for you. so what this is a new text messaging service and you actually download. it s called tiger text. now both concerned and the receiver, they have to have the app for this whole thing to work, and what tiger does is tiger text lets you send text that literally vanished, poofed, they are deleted from the concerned and the receiver s phones. you get to specify when. it can be within a minute to 30 days. that s so these text message
shift living in the digital age. coming up freemium gaming an app for gore makes and skateboard acrobatics. but first cyber bullying these days many youngsters are getting abuse via text message messenger service or social media but more and more victims are fighting back and make their plight publicly known. as poland loves chatting to friends every day the thirteen year old spent several hours online then one day he began receiving abuse on his smartphone from a text messaging service that keeps the sender s identity secret they thank us condyle but i think it happened because i supported a fellow student who was being bullied that s how it probably. hearted. fun and