Youth flock to mobile messaging apps, may be threat to Facebook

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Monday, 01 Apr 2013
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SAN FRANCISCO: Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music.

That might sound precisely like Facebook, but hundreds of millions of tech-savvy young people have instead turned to a wave of smartphone-based messaging apps that are now sweeping across North America, Asia and Europe.

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LET'S be honest – most of us use Grab without thinking twice. Breakfast on-the-go? Tap. Drowned under a pile of work at the office and can't step out for lunch? Tap. Midnight munchies? Tap. Grocery top-up? Tap.

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PHARMA	0.175	0.175	0.160	0.170	-0.005	-2.86	804,809
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ZETRIX	0.880	0.895	0.870	0.895	0.015	1.70	346,255
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