24There is now a new way of acquiring bitcoins There is now a new way of acquiring bitcoins – topping up your mobile phone credit. The cryptocurrency can now be subject to various loyalty programs. Such a conclusion can be drawn from the report on the start of the partnership between the e-promo system Tango…
23Wickr is the world’s most secure messaging app! Wickr – leave no trace! This is exactly how this US messaging app positions itself. Well, this is obviously true, because in the recent Who Has Your Back 2015 report on government data requests Wickr has gloriously left behind the market’s largest player WhatsApp and got 4…
23One of Germany’s most popular texting apps, Threema, is entering the US market. Founded in 2012, the app markets itself as one of the most secure ones out there thanks to end-to-end encryption and numerous security options. For the time being Threema cannot seriously compete with leading messengers. For example, WhatsApp has 800 million monthly…
23NGO Electronic Frontiers Foundation has published the results of an annual study on the safety of user data, which absolutely must be closely analyzed and perused by the world’s leading IT firms. According to EFF experts, WhatsApp hasn’t done a stroke of work in this regard. Based on the results of the study Who Has…
23Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has uploaded a video that is different from fun videos typical of this messaging app. Snapchat fans will hardly find it pleasing. However, they are not, basically, the target audience of that video. In the video that lasts 1.5 minutes Spiegel speaks about 3V: vertical video view, which is a new format…
22The evaluation of Slack rose to $2.8 bn within less than two years and it has doubled for the last six months. And this was achieved without any special efforts or campaigns on behalf of the developers. The growth curve of the user base and mega positive reviews in the media are something most startups…
22A new version of Bindle messenger – a group chat app – has been released. The major update for the upgraded 1.2. iOS version is that the app can now work on iPad. The developers state that from now on, Bindle is going to work on the tablet perfectly. The updated version contains a landscape…
22Mass media in the Philippines has been active spreading a rumour that within a few weeks Viber messenger is going to release its own payment system in this Asian country. The exact name of the new payment service has not been publicly announced yet but most observers are positive that it will be Viber Pay….
21The beginning Tinder history began in the summer of 1986, on the birthday of Sean Rad – the man without whom this application would have been impossible. The next milestone in its history is the fall of 2004, when Rad went to the University of Southern California, where he received a business education. Here he…
20The messaging app market has got a newcomer. An ambitious one. While market leaders are actively turning into platforms, startups choose just one market segment to fill, to begin with. This is also true about InTouch – so far, it decided to take up the niche of communications based on geolocation services. The developers call…