20Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. On May 10, 2011, Microsoft bought the company developer of the program for $8.5 billion. This event gave a new start for the further development of messenger. Now Skype has such functions as: Group video and audio calls; Skype number; Text,video and audio messeges;…
19The Chinese messenger platform WeChat is gearing up to beat the record of its own revenue for Q1 and seeking new monetization strategies. Tencent, the company that founded it, will continue experimenting with the amount of adverts in WeChat’s Moments. According to the Chief Strategy Office James Mitchell, WeChat team is doing its best to…
18On the May 17, Launching Next portal added these three new startups of the messaging world: Rif, Vidao and LetsHang. You are about to get a sneak-peak on these new apps that would make your online communication more interactive and convenient. Rif Rif is for those who use gifs to express any emotion, get an idea…
18All Hike users can now visit the Windows Phone Store to upgrade to the latest version of the app. It is quite a significant update for those who use group chats quite frequently, since they removed the bug issue that added users to unknown public chats. Let’s not forget that it benefits the app’s privacy…
17As it was reported before, a lot of free messaging apps helped Nepal residents communicate better during the first earthquake. Unfortunately, Nepal suffered a second earthquake – 7.3 on the Richter scale. After such a disaster, Viber introduced the free call feature to the region. It is not clear why this could not have been…
16Free cheese can be only in mousetraps, as they say. A recent survey says that calls in WhatsApp, that are supposedly free of charge, can be pretty costly. In order to make free calls within WhatsApp you need a Wi-Fi connection or an active data transfer – in that case, you will be able to…
15Hangouts Messenger that emerged as a separate app had to struggle for its popularity. It is as good as other apps of its type and this secures it equal opportunities for competing. It has an ace up its sleeve, though: the world’s most widely known name of its developers – Google. Upon hearing the name…
15Pavel Durov’s Russian Telegram Messenger has released its latest statistic figures, which prove that the app is gaining popularity quite fast. Currently, 2 billion messages are sent over Russian Telegram daily. This is twice as many as was back in December 2014. Besides, Durov said that at the moment Russian Telegram has 62 million monthly active users, whereas…
14Probably everyone who uses messaging apps for business and personal communication has at least once been in doubt: are messengers indeed so secure? Some people don’t want others to see their status or their profile photo, someone just hates the idea of sharing their personal information with anyone. Below are seven professional tips to make…
14The night of 13 May 2015 caught Internet users in Russia off guard. All of a sudden, they found themselves deprived of access to western services like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Wikipedia and a few more websites. Still, they were still able to use Google. All Russian websites worked as well as they usually do. Some…