CNETAnalysis: Google’s hunger for new acquisitions appears to remain unsatisfied as rumours surface that the company is looking to buy WhatsApp. WhatsApp, the popular cross-platform messaging app that has rapidly eclipsed text messaging as we know it, has been predicted as a big buy for some time. Now it looks like Google is the one circling a deal, if inside sources speaking to Digital Trends are to be believed. However, word is that the mobile messaging service is playing hard to get, demanding more than Google is currently offering – which is said to be around $1bn (£653m/AUS$963m). Chatterbox With Facebook finding its home on the HTC First , 2013 could prove to be a big year for the new age of messaging services, with bog standard text messaging beginning to feel like a thing of the past. And WhatsApp feels like a no-brainer for Google, which will most likely bring the service as an integrated part of Android in the future if a deal takes place. Rumours have been swirling that Google is looking to release an all-under-one-roof messaging service named Google Babble , so we’d expect to see WhatsApp play into that But if Google is to announce Babble at May’s Google I/O developer conference, it might want to get this WhatsApp deal done and dusted post haste. We’ve contacted Google to ask if it can verify the rumours of this acquisition, and will update if we hear back.
CNews Karachi. July 05: A Pakistani Scientist in Britain has invented a new chemical for processing plastic (polythene) bags which has the quality of dissolution after its use in 105 days.A manufacturing unit for these plastic bags was being set up in Turkey while interest has been shown in the setting up of a big unit and manufacturing firm’s head quarter in Karachi which will be used to supply such dissolvable polythene bags to Asian countries. The Director of UK based firm Bio Plast Biodegradable Plastics GL Punn while leading a 15 member delegation called on EDO Municipal Services City Government Masood Alam. The Executive Director of Bio Plast Pakistan Muhammad Hanif Awan and M. Sultan Mehmood Awan was also present on this occasion. The Director of Bio Plast informed the EDO Municipal Services about the characteristics of new chemical. He said that the firm was going to set up its first plant in Turkey which will be operative in next two months. The delegation also praised the vi