10Messaging apps are the most popular ones in the mobile applications’ market. Snapchat is valued at around $20 billion. Exactly a year ago, in mid-February 2014, nobody could imagine anything like this. So, when Zuckerberg announced that his social network would buy a messaging service that is hardly known, US pundits began to ask themselves…
10Jan Koum’s and Durov brothers’ messaging apps are in special kind of relations. We have written about Pavel’s predictions and his scalding tweets, and that Koum accused Pavel of being able only to steal technologies but failing to create any of his own. Simultaneously with their intense arguments, Russian Telegram made a clever use of setbacks…
06The popular Japanese messaging app is confirming its reputation of “more than just a messaging app”. Along with the version 5.00, LINE becomes more of a social network than an IM service. Now you can publish any post on your timeline and let it be visible to everyone. What’s more, just like in Facebook or…
05According to the IM’s blog, “This update reflects Russian Telegram’s essence”. On 25 February, the Durov brothers’ brainchild got updated. The update introduced Passcodes and Photo Editor. Read all about it under the cut. Passcode Now you can set a password to Russian Telegram on iOS and Android devices. This can be done in the settings menu: [widgetkit…
05Students from Manchester were selected to be test subjects for the new messaging app Reach. However, it all started off with Cambridge graduate Jessica Bohm and Daniel Setton teaming up to develop the application for anonymous affinity group communication. The Israeli-found startup has managed to attracted around $150 thousand of investments for the development of…
05The calling feature that WhatsApp promised to introduce in the first quarter of 2015 has finally arrived. The giant has finally shown signs of life. After all, despite the archaic messaging app’s vast audience, being behind everyone in the world tech-wise isn’t the most pleasing spot to occupy. This is exactly why WhatsApp released its…
03Continuing the first part of Messenger Personas, today we will talk about the two founders of the popular messaging app Viber. Talmon Marco Born in Israel in 1973 and having graduated from Tel-Aviv University where he majored in Computer Science and Management, he chose the IT sphere as his permanent area of work. After he…
02Disa – one for all, all for one. There is certain logic in the emergence of messaging apps like Disa. However, multi-protocol IMs can hardly surprise anyone – we all remember the similar Miranda app. For the purposes of my job, my phone is full of messaging apps. Each of them contains my friend…
02LINE – for Buddies and Family, LINE@ – for Business LINE corporation, famous due to the chat app of the same name (it is more correct to call it a platform, though), has entered the business solution market and released a new product – the LINE@ messaging app. According to the LINE rep, the company…
02Snapchat plans on snatching third place in the list of the world’s most valuable start-ups. In order to achieve this the company is planning on attracting an investment of $500 million, taking Snapchat’s estimated value up to $19 billion. Media agency Bloomberg was first to spread the word that, according to an anonymous reliable…