02Messaging app Line, which aspires to be more than just a messaging service, plans to turn itself into a “lifestyle” platform. For this purpose, Line is launching an investment fund with a $42 million budget, whose major target will be investing in startups able to expand the services offered within the app. The…
27Pushbullet is an app that syncs your device with your PC. It is largely based on push notifications that can be adjusted to fit any event. Weather forecasts? PB notification. Favorite team wins match? PB notification. You can also select the notifications you will get upon arriving to a certain destination, like work. Moreover, PB…
27Snapchat is a US media exchanging service with a daily audience of over 100 million users. This is the first and, in most cases, only instant messenger for US teenagers. Despite its huge popularity in the USA, it isn’t doing that well in this respect on post-Soviet territory and the app is hopelessly sitting at…
27One of Russian language magazines has published an interview with Jun Masuda, the chief strategy and marketing officer with Line. Line is the corporation, known in the post-Soviet territory mostly thanks to its instant messenger. Here are the main points that we picked from the long interview. As early as 2010, NAVER (which consequently was…
27Earn Money on Stickers with 4talk IM 4talk IM is a messenger released in 2014. Once more candidate to push WhatsApp and Viber out of their top positions in the market, characterized by the ability to work on different platforms and, presumably, high speed. Presumably, because no tests have proved it yet. We have…
25The Durov brothers are keeping the $300,000 cash prize Yet another Russian Telegram contest has come to an end. The essence of the competition hasn’t changed — you needed to hack into a private chat within the messenger and acquire the emails together with their passwords from the fake conversation between two bots named Nick and…
25This post should have been called ‘Idiots online’, but that’s a bit too harsh. A Snapchat snapshot became a key piece of evidence in a homicide investigation. This is how it went down: 16-year-old high school student Maxwell Marion Morton shot his classmate. You probably wouldn’t have heard about this if he had just shot…
25A very treacherous path lies ahead of Google on its road to uniting calls, messaging and video! Google announced that as of 16 February the company no longer supports one of its products — Google Talk. Thus, the users are left with no other option but to switch to Hangouts. A very treacherous path lies…
24Bumble, set in motion at the beginning of last December, is, essentially, a dating app. However, they got a rather interesting feature off the ground today. This innovation isn’t standalone, but was borne as a supplementary tool in an app that allows for the expansion of user capabilities. We’re talking about photo messaging. In fact,…
24Confide is an instant messaging app for exchanging classified private information. After Snowden’s leaked stories, hacked iClouds and British PM’s address the issue of data security has moved to a new level. New encryption protocols, trending encrypted instant messengers and cloud storage, incognito browsing — are all user responses to prying government eyes. Despite end-to-end…