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Telegram Messenger Gives Its Users Stickers in Latest Updates on iOS,...
Telegram beta’s last Windows Phone update put rewritten secret chats and custom notification sounds on the map, and now the company is doing the same with stickers with Telegram beta version 1.2....
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Chelsea FC Now Has an Official Account on LINE: Follow to Stay Up to Date on...
LINE Corporation, the world’s leading mobile messaging platform, has announced the launch of an Official Account for three time Premier League Champions, Chelsea Football Club. Chelsea FC is one of the...
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Voice Transcription Now Being Tested on Facebook Messenger on “Tiny Scale”
Anyone who has ever used Google Voice or similar services knows what voice transcription entails: it essentially turns your voicemails into text messages. In a perfect world, it would allow you to know...
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Bangladesh Government Blocks Access to Viber and Tango, Citing Security...
If you live in Bangladesh, you’ve likely been unable to make and receive calls on popular calling and messaging services Viber and Tango starting yesterday. We started receiving reports that the two...
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WhatsApp Plus Users Being Suspended for Using Third Party Clients
If you’re using WhatsApp Messenger on the “Plus” side and you’re doing it through a third party client, you no doubt have heard that users are being banned for using such services to access their...
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After WhatsApp Web Launch, WeChat Spotlights WeChat for Web Benefits
The highly-competitive messaging space is becoming more competitive by the day with this week’s launch of WhatsApp Web bringing the popular Facebook-owned messenger to the desktop for the first time —...
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Snapchat Launches Discover Feature, Bringing News to Snaps
Snapchat has been steadily introducing new features into its arsenal to keep its users active as a wave of messaging apps continues to increase competition. To that end, the company has just introduced...
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Kik Messenger Hits 200 Million Registered Users on iOS, Android, and Windows...
Canada-based Kik Messenger has just announced that it has reached 200 million registered users, which are spread out among Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms. This is a growth of 100 million...
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Snapchat Update Quietly Removed “Best Friends” Feature, Upsetting Some Users
Yesterday, we reported on the arrival of Discover for Snapchat, and only afterwards was it discovered that the app’s “best friends” feature, which shows users’ top three most popular friends, had been...
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LINE Corporation Announces 2014 Yearly Earnings, 181 million Monthly Active...
LINE Corporation, the owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, today announced their Q4 (October – December) and yearly earnings for 2014. LINE Corporation’s revenue for the quarter...
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Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Exceeded 1.2 Billion in 2014 Says Juniper...
Mobile analyst firm Juniper Research, which provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, estimates that the number of smartphone shipments exceeded 375 million...
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Have Messaging Apps Really Peaked in the U.S.? Kik CEO Says “Yes”
There’s no debating the popularity of messaging apps. The top dogs are WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Skype, LINE, and Viber. Depending on which part of the world you’re in, some messaging...
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BBM Shop Hits 1 Billion Views as Stickers, Games Become More Popular Commodities
If you’ve ever purchased a BBM sticker set for yourself, you’re part of a growing set of users who have decided to embrace stickers sold by various messaging apps as a form of expression and a way to...
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WeChat, Ten Sports Partner to Bring Sports News to WeChatters Via Official...
If you’re a big fan of watching sports, you might be interested to know that Ten Sports, the most popular sports channel in India has launched their official account on the WeChat app, and plans to...
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Spread the Love With New Valentine’s Day Stickers on Nimbuzz Messenger
Whether you’re chatting with a friend or a family member, Nimbuzz wants to make sure you’re able to portray your feelings this Valentine’s Day. To that end, the messaging app has released Valentine’s...
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LINE Named “Best International Startup” at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards...
LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, today announced that it was recipient of “The 2015 Crunchies Award for Best International Startup” at the 8th Annual...
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Newly-released Skype 5.10 for Apple iPhone Devices Brings Back URI Support
Today Skype app version 5.10 was released for Apple iPhone devices and brings Skype URI support back to the platform, enabling developers to more easily use Skype’s messaging and calling infrastructure...
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Tango Teams Up with Basketball Stars Dwyane Wade, Tony Parker and Chris Paul
Tango, a popular messaging application that boasts over 250 million registered users, announced that it has partnered with basketball stars Dwyane Wade, Tony Parker and Chris Paul to post exclusive...
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LINE Pay Acquires WebPay in Bid to Become Leader in Online Payments
LINE Pay, a startup formed as a subsidiary of messaging leader LINE, announced its acquisition of Japanese payment company WebPay earlier today. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. WebPay was...
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Reach Takes on Secret, Whisper, and Yik Yak With Anonymous Messaging
At the end of last year, we previewed a brand new anonymous messaging app that combined chat and search in a unique way. This week, Reach has launched in the iTunes Store to compete with other...
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