Twitter and 7 news bay area. Good evening. Other top story tonight. San jose firefighters on city wide alert because of a new danger. Booby trap. Warning comes after firefighters stumbled on a spiked booby trap and respond to go call from former homeless encampment off capitol express wait a minute he wasnt injured. David louie has more now from san jose. Booby trap was discovered on the site of anded homeless encampment. Firefighters literally stumble upon it. Fire Department Photo shows it to be about 2 feet deep. Sharp stake. In the hotel wooden stake cut with a sharp edge commonly called punky stick. Step on it you fall and severely injured. The stake were used trap used by communist troop during the vietnam war. Nature of type of trap is clearly designed to hurt individuals. We dont know for certain if that was designed to hurt other people in the encampment. Police Department Personnel. Fire Department Personnel regardless they are endanger to everyone and dont discriminate to wh
Better battery, bigger screen and we will talk about that later in the show. Out, house of cards came friday and more people are binging on this show than ever before. We will tell you how many and has netflix is more more shocking storytelling. Our lead story is the company that makes the addictive and super popular puzzle game candy crushed saga has filed to go public. King Digital Entertainment raised 500 million in an ipo. The company is based in dublin. We got to see a lot of numbers and some pretty good numbers but not some great numbers. What is your take away . These numbers were pretty much what we reported about six months ago and it shows they are reliant on one game for the majority of the revenue, about 87 . What we need to find out is if they can parlay candy crushed into other titles to make a lot of money. The next two titles fall off by a massive amount in terms of the amount of revenue. The way they make money is that users within the game by Digital Goods and thats w
Family back at home in the ukraine. His cofounder, brian acton meantime, got turned down for jobs at facebook and twitter. The result, the two of them after leaving yahoo started a messaging service that anyone could afford. Just days ago he found himself eating chocolatecovered strawberries at Mark Zuckerbergs house on valentines day and striking a deal that will make him and his 50 employees very, very rich. So how will facebooks acquisition of whatsapp impact its competitors . I spoke with ben thomson, an author, who joined me from taiwan and Andreessen Horowitz partner benedict evans. I asked them if whatsapp is worth the price tag . Its a bit like the instagram acquisition. Was instagram worth 1 billion or 1 of facebook at the time . The question for Mark Zuckerberg is around maintaining share engagement and share of social activity. Whatsapp now has 450 million active users, 70 of them active every day. That is a significant advantage of facebook users. Whatsapp is taking a big c
This is a guy who grew up on food stamps and was so poor he could not afford to call his family back home in the ukraine. His to founder, brian acton got turned down for jobs at facebook and twitter. The result, the two of them after leaving yahoo started a messaging service. Just weeks ago he found himself eating Chocolate Covered Strawberries at Mark Zuckerbergs. How will facebooks acquisition impact its competitors . I spoke with brian. Spnch them if whatsap worth the price tag . It is a lot like the instagram acquisition. I think the question for mark zucker entering around maintaining shares engagement nd shares of activity. 77 of their users are active every day. Certainly there is only mobile activity users for facebook. Whatsapp is taking a big chunk of people who were using facebook. A lot of them were using facebook first. The question for him is do you just sit and try and compete with that . They have been looking at that for the last year to two years. Do you say look, thi
Family back at home in the ukraine. His cofounder, brian acton meantime, got turned down for jobs at facebook and twitter. The result, the two of them after leaving yahoo started a messaging service that anyone could afford. Just days ago he found himself eating chocolatecovered strawberries at Mark Zuckerbergs house on valentines day and striking a deal that will make him and his 50 employees very, very rich. So how will facebooks acquisition of whatsapp impact its competitors . I spoke with ben thomson, an author, who joined me from taiwan and Andreessen Horowitz partner benedict evans. I asked them if whatsapp is worth the price tag . Its a bit like the instagram acquisition. Was instagram worth 1 billion or 1 of facebook at the time . The question for Mark Zuckerberg is around maintaining share engagement and share of social activity. Whatsapp now has 450 million active users, 70 of them active every day. That is a significant advantage of facebook users. Whatsapp is taking a big c