Hello & welcome to another edition of the GK Nugget .  Did you know that from Jan to March 2017 , Indians spent 2.5 hours a day on apps, higher than the 2 hours they spent during the same period in 2016? And this is more than the 1.5-2 hours spent by citizens of the US, UK, Germany and France. And did you know that WhatsApp has 1.2 billion active users currently, making it the most popular mobile app globally. But today’s GK Nugget will bring you some lesser known facts about another app/website that we spend a lot of our time on – WhatsApp’s mother company – Facebook . (Facebook bought over WhatsApp for $19 billion in Feb 2014) On 18 th May 2012 , Facebook was listed on NASDAQ (US stock exchange, which is the 2 nd largest in the world). It was the largest tech IPO till then, making the company worth $104 billion . (Alibaba listed on the New York Stock Exchange -largest stock exchange in the world- in Sept 2014 at a company worth of $230 billion ). In t

Hello & welcome to another edition of the GK Nugget. In today’s selfie obsessed world, “ Say Cheese ” might have become our most favourite phrase. May 7 th marks a momentous day for this photo snapping world of today for it was on this day 129 years ago (in 1888) that George Eastman patented the ‘ Kodak Box Camera ’ and so today’s GK Nugget will uncover trivia about the inventor of the camera and his invention. The Kodak Box Camera contained a roll film with 100 exposures . It was an easy to use camera with a fixed focal length and once the photographer had used up the 100 exposures, s/he could send the camera to the Eastman Kodak company which would develop the film and also insert a new one in the camera and send it back to the owner. In 1900 , the Kodak Brownie camera was introduced which sold for $1 . This further helped photography turn into a hobby. The Kodak tagline was “ You press the button – we do the rest ” thus symbolizing that all the buyer had to d