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The app that knows your number
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by Joe Dyke

Looking at the Lebanese Google trends data for 2012, one company’s growth shone above any other. In 2012 the number of people searching for Truecaller in Lebanon increased by 4,150 percent – the biggest rise of any term in the search engine, with the next highest growing by just 250 percent. Truecaller’s app has been the most downloaded on both iPhones and Android phones for much of the second half of the year. The service Truecaller offers is remarkably simple. It allows people to log on and enter a number to find out the name of a caller. In effect it is a backwards phone book – rather than looking for the name and getting the number, you enter the number and find out the name. This service is incredibly useful in Lebanon, where the curse of the missed call from an unknown number is particularly common due to exorbitantly

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