Facebook Inc.’s software team has spent the last two years working on a way to compress application code with a view to keeping app sizes more manageable, ultimately coming up with a new technique ...

From throttling mobile customers who use too much bandwidth to jacking up the price of data plans, wireless networks have made it increasingly difficult--and expensive--for small-business owners to ...

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Data compression has emerged as a vital tool for managing the ever‐increasing volumes of data produced by contemporary scientific research. Techniques in this field aim to reduce storage requirements ...

Israeli startup, Onavo, was acquired by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), according to an Onavo blog post Monday. Onavo makes data compression software, which Facebook said it planned to use in promoting the ...