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Kik and Glympse Join Forces to Provide 120 Million Kik Users With Location...
Like ChatOn and BBM before it, Kik Messenger has partnered with popular location-tracking service Glympse to give its users real-time location sharing. The partnership will allow Kik’s 120 million...
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imo.im Announces New Food-Themed Sticker Pack Ready for Launch on Its...
Late last week, popular messaging platform imo.im (also commonly referred to as imo Messenger) took the wraps off its new sports and weather themed stickers, and the messaging platform has also...
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Tango Announces $25 Million Dollar Global Games Fund for Developers, a First...
Tango has made its commitment to expanding its popular gaming platform quite clear with a $25 million Tango Global Games Fund as well as the appointment of Jim Ying as its vice president of games...
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LINE Releases Snapchat-Esk “Hidden Chats” Time-Limited Messages Feature
LINE has just unveiled a new feature called Hidden Chats, which have their own dedicated chat window and allow messages to be sent securely and privately. Once received, the receiver taps on the...
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Tango Completes Secondary Offering That Allows Its Employees to Sell and...
Tango recently completed a secondary offering of $8 million that allowed its 200 employees who hold common stock or stock options the ability to sell a percentage of their vested shares and options...
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KakaoTalk Celebrates As Two Year Anniversary of KakaoGame Platform Approaches
KakaoGame, the gaming platform associated with KakaoTalk is fast-approaching its two year anniversary, having first launched on July 30, 2012. Back then, mobile games were just starting to erupt. The...
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The Weinstein Company Launches Kik Card for “The Giver” Ahead of The Film’s...
We’ve seen a number of cool marketing campaigns involving messaging apps over the past year or so. In June 2013, we saw a World War Z film campaign involving ooVoo, we saw a One Direction album...
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YOOX Group and WeChat Launch Global Partnership for Mobile Commerce and...
Fashion and design specialists YOOX Group and Tencent’s WeChat (Weixin in China) have just announced a global partnership that mixes social, mobile and looks to bring the online shopping experience to...
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Uber and Payments Reportedly Coming to Facebook’s Messenger App
Facebook Messenger is really looking to expand in a big way, taking on WeChat, LINE, and even its own WhatsApp Messenger in the messaging space and beyond. While payments were hinted in the company’s...
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Messaging and Calling Apps in the 21st Century: Where Are We Going From Here?
Imagine a world where you turn on your PC and you wait a few minutes while your computer boots up. While you wait, you decide that it’s the perfect time for a cup of coffee, so you head into the...
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Tango Music Pix Released Then Pulled From the ITunes App Store, a Hint at...
Tango fans who are fans of the company’s partnership with Spotify will be happy to know that there appears to be another music-enabled feature on the horizon. Dubbed Tango Music Pix, the app was...
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Facebook Is Pushing Users to Messenger, Removing Messaging From Main App
In a move that is not surprising, Facebook is pushing users to its Facebook Messenger app by removing the ability to message your family and friends through the main application. This move will be...
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Bolt Co-Founder and CEO Asks Instagram to Rename Its Forthcoming Photo...
We’ve had Bolt under our radar for quite some time, so when we heard that Instagram was also launching its own photo messaging app also named Bolt, we couldn’t help but wonder what kind of implications...
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Voxer Business Partners With Viceroy Hotel to Enhance Customer Service With...
It’s helped roto-rooter technicians working out in the field and boardroom events to improve conference communication, and now Voxer is looking enhance quite possibly the most important aspect of any...
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imo.im Beta Users on Android, imo Users on iOS Get Connection, Video Chat...
A pair of updates have just been released for imo.im, with one for Android and one for iOS users. While the iOS update doesn’t really add anything new, it does make some improvements to video chat....
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Instagram Launches Its Bolt Photo Messaging App, and It’s Still Called Bolt
We knew Instagram’s effort to nab a bit of Snapchat’s thunder was imminent thanks to leaked promo banners and of course no shortage of rumors, and the launch date has arrived. Bolt is now available in...
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BBM for Android and iOS Will Be Getting a “More Native” UI Facelift
The BBM for Windows Phone UI resembles the platform it was built for to make it look more native, while BBM on iOS and Android actually takes its inspiration from the Cascades visuals found in the...
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Snapchat Reportedly in Talks With Alibaba for Funding Round Valued at $10...
Calling and messaging apps do command quite a bit of value, as we saw earlier this year with Facebook’s $19 billion WhatsApp purchase and Rakuten’s $900 million Viber acquisition. So the looming...
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Viber Now Has 400 Million Registered Users, Up From 200 Million During...
We all know how hot the vast messaging space is right now, and it continues to flourish largely on the momentum of a handful of messaging and calling apps. Today, those apps consist of WhatsApp,...
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LINE Reports April-June Revenues With 146 Percent Year-on-Year Growth
Naver’s LINE app is one of those you just expect certain things from, and lately that’s been new stickers, new games, and solid growth. The company revealed revenues for the app hit JPY 18.2 billion...
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