Tango Teaches Its News Feed Some New Dance Moves With Spotify Music and...
If you’re a Tango user who’s also a fan of the app’s News Feed, you’ll be excited to know that the News Feed has exited beta and has been given a nice boost thanks to some new enhancements. Tango has...
View ArticleWhatsApp Surpasses 500 Million Active Users Worldwide, With Over 700 Million...
Despite being acquired by Facebook, which caused some privacy issues to surface, popular messaging app WhatsApp has continued to add users at a rapid pace, reaching over 500 million as of today, and a...
View ArticleViber 4.2 Gets an iOS7 Makeover, Comes to BlackBerry 10 For the First Time
A double-dip of Viber fun today, as the company recently acquired by Rakuten announced the availability of its brand new (and completely redesigned calling app for iOS 7 devices after a short, unknown...
View ArticleMarvel Super Heroes Arrive in the WeChat Sticker Shop, Available Free Until...
I am Iron Man! Okay, not really, but WeChat‘s new sticker offerings help to make me feel at least a little more connected to the super hero — and also succeeded in getting that Ozzy Osbourne song of he...
View ArticleLINE Partnership With Clear Channel to “Connect Radio Listeners to Their...
LINE isn’t just about messaging, and it’s not just about its “growing gaming platform either. LINE’s latest partnership with Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, which holds the crown for the...
View ArticleWhatsApp Meets Snapchat With Launch of Snapchat Instant Messaging Service
Snapchat has announced it is ‘putting the chat into Snapchat’ with a new instant messaging service to rival numerous other messaging apps on the market. The service will be accessible on both Android...
View ArticleSkype-Like BBM Voice Product Could Lead the Way for An Improved Brand Identity
BlackBerry may look to recover its lost luster with a voice calling product that’s modeled after that of according to reports. In a recent media briefing, David Proulx, the senior director of BBM...
View ArticleWeChat Offers 1GB of Cloud Storage to Users for Multimedia and Text Messages,...
The competition in the messaging space is heating up and is showing no signs of cooling down. To help set itself apart from the increasing competition, WeChat, operated by China’s Tencent, has started...
View ArticleCriptext, A Secure B2B Messaging Application Launches, Provides Ephemeral...
Security and messaging have in many ways become synonymous with one another, particularly in the business and government sectors. Criptext hopes to bring its own take on the secure messaging phenomenon...
View ArticleeMote Messenger Now Available in iTunes App Store, Express Yourself With...
We’ve covered a great many messaging apps here and now there’s one more to add to the list: eMote – Color + Mood Messenger. eMote allows you to express yourself in messages with color-coded chat...
View ArticleRingCentral Expands HD Video Conferencing Feature Across Its Office Product Line
RingCentral, Inc., a leading provider of cloud business communications solutions, today announced it will include RingCentral Meetings, a multi-point HD video conferencing and web sharing app built for...
View ArticleWeeby.co: Creating Consistency Out of an Increasingly Fragmented Mobile...
There is an extensive and growing collection of messaging apps out there today, many of which have matured beyond the “simply messaging” stage and moved into entertainment platforms, including LINE,...
View ArticleWhatsApp Wants A Whopping One Billion Users Within One Year, Doubling Its...
After being acquired by Facebook earlier this year and the aftermath of security fears that ensued, it seemed to many a shock when WhatsApp announced that it had surpassed 500 million active users, but...
View ArticleWeChat Claims 396 Million Active Users as it Continues Its March Toward WhatsApp
Tencent, the parent company of Wechat, has been doing rather well in the Asian markets and its financials (PDF) are a testament to the company’s — and WeChat’s — strength. The WeChat social platform,...
View ArticleGames on KakaoTalk’s Messaging App Surpass 500 Million Subscribers, Company...
WeChat isn’t the only Asian messaging application to gain user mindshare this week. KakaoTalk is also seeing great success, specifically with its Kakao Game gaming platform, which the company claims...
View ArticleRebtel Spinoff Sinch Launches Communications Platform for Mobile Developers...
Sinch today announced the launch of its communications platform enabling iOS and Android developers to add a layer of voice and messaging to their apps, for free or at fraction of the cost of...
View ArticleWeeby.co Messenger App Gaming Startup launches Bubble Pang, its first Tango Game
A few days ago, we covered Weeby.co, a startup with a special focus on developing software that can span multiple messaging apps. Today, that same company has launched its very first game for Tango:...
View ArticleTango Unlocks Animated “Surprises” on Android and iOS, Makes Them Free
Tango‘s “surprises” in a nutshell are animated stickers, emoji, or emoticons (depending on which term you’d care to use) that are available either for free or for sale via the Tango communications...
View ArticleMore Adults Call Than Text According to a Recent Vonage Survey, Especially...
Okay, so there are those of us who prefer mass-chatting on our favorite messaging platforms or text messaging rather than calling, but for a vast majority of adults, this doesn’t appear to be the norm....
View ArticleWhatsApp Meets Snapchat With Launch of Snapchat Instant Messaging Service
Snapchat has announced it is ‘putting the chat into Snapchat’ with a new instant messaging service to rival numerous other messaging apps on the market. The service will be accessible on both Android...
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