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Viber CEO takes on carriers’ over

BARCELONA, Spain–Carriers love to bash companies like Skype and WhatsApp that provide services on top of their mobile networks at the Mobile World Congress trade show. But one thing was different this year: Viber Media founder and Chief Executive Talmon Marco entered the lion’s den to defend the idea. Viber‘s free messaging service, which competes directly with carriers’ own high-profit …

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Nokia 720 and oversized phones from LG, ZTE at MWC

CNET staff hit the ground running on the first official day of Mobile World Congress yesterday, turning up bright and early with not a bleary eye in sight to make it to Nokia’s 8.30am press conference. A series of budget and midrange handsets were launched, chief among them the latest additions to Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 range, the Lumia 720 …

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