29After an unsuccessful attempt to get Instagram to change the name of its application, the developers’ team of the Bolt messenger decided to give up the struggle and simply renamed the project as Charge. In its press release, the team of the project announced the new name of the messaging app and gave links for…
29It is a mystery why, but the Russian Telegram Messenger authorities (Pavel Durov himself, apparently) have launched a contest for a making new messaging app. The announced competition is just the first stage of the contest. The major condition is that the app is to be made for Android 4 and 5 versions. The interface suggested…
28A few hours after the presentation of Facebook Messenger mobile version, a separate app that allows installing a desktop version of Facebook Messenger to your Macintosh appeared on the Web. For those who hate trying anything new and do not want to use bad quality products either it is enough to go to Messenger.com and…
27Let me introduce Quickie – a small stylish app for iOS, which allows making one-to-one calls that break a couple of seconds later on a compulsory basis. You can use this app to tell your pal a joke or wish a good morning to a business partner. Sending a text message will not be as…
24On April 16, the management of the team communication tool Slack announced that the last investment round has been closed. As part of the E Round, the startup raised $160 mln and was given a post-investment assessment of $2.8 bn. The creation of the Flickr co-founder, Stewart Butterfield, seriously added in value: in October 2014,…
24In August 2014, the media boasted that investors had estimated Snapchat at $10 bn. The company’s present value is $15 bn. As we can see, by turning down Mark Zuckerberg’s offer to sell their messenger for $3 bn in late 2013, the founders of the photo messaging app, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, put their…
23Kik, the developer of the eponymous messaging service based in Waterloo, Canada, is looking into expanding its service functionality through partnerships or strategic investments from large IT companies. According to media reports, the possibility of selling the biz isn’t even up for discussion yet. As reported by Bloomberg, the company has more than 200 million…
22While Facebook Messenger became a platform only recently, its competitor with a less famous but a more succinct name Kik keeps surprising its users giving them cooler innovations. From now on, the messenger app has got a full-scale browser built in. The innovation introduced by Facebook only now (I mean becoming a platform) was done…
21Singtel, the largest company to provide telecommunication services to over 500 million users in South East Asia has released a Wavee app, which is expected to compete with Skype and WhatsApp. The app is available for gadgets working on iOS and Android. It allows making voice and video calls, and lets you send messages. Wavee…
20Being well behind the flagship Telegram, the WhatsApp messenger has nevertheless implemented Material Design for its Android version. Material Design became trendy after it had been presented at the summer Google conference. We cannot but notice positive changes that took place this year in WhatsApp’s policy: web-version, making calls, and now they have introduced Material…