22People working in teams have long since developed a tendency of replacing their awkward email clients with faster and more functional services, like Yammer, Slack and their analogues. The other day Facebook (that’s trying to race everyone to the finish line) started testing a special messenger (or, as an option, an expansion of an existing…
21THE OTHER DAY WECHAT WAS FLOODED WITH COMPLAINTS FROM OUTRAGED CHINESE USERS: The things is that on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day WeChat developers decided to leave an Easter egg for their users – when you type in the phrase “civil rights” an emoji of the US flag would appear. The introduction of topical smiles…
21FACEBOOK MESSENGER BEGAN TESTING ITS SERVICE THAT AUTOMATICALLY CONVERTS VOICE MESSAGES TO TEXT The messenger’s veep presented to the court of public opinion an announcement in the form of a prototype of the intended interface As many of you know, we already offer a feature that enables people to send voice clips to their friends…
21Facebook will take care of your money Facebook Messenger will become more than just a messenger. Stanford computer science student Andrew Aude will back that up. He has an unusual hobby — with the help of Cycript (iOS app exploration developer tool) he looks at the internal components of various apps. He did the same…
21ANALYST BENEDICT EVANS HAS RECENTLY SHARED HIS THOUGHTS ON WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR MESSENGERS. After WhatsApp became Facebook’s property Evans expressed his opinion on the fact that the given market doesn’t have a winner yet, however, the smartphone has entirely become a social platform. A remarkable fact is that the biggest messenger out there,…
21«I HAVE NO F-KING IDEA WHY SLACK EXPLODED, TO BE HONEST” — SLACK CO-FOUNDER, STEWART BUTTERFIELD, TOLD JOURNALIST AT THE DLD CONFERENCE. A graph demonstrating the growth rate of Slack, a corporate messenger, was released not too long ago, presenting some impressive results, to say the least. We’ll go into that a bit later. Slack was…
21What is it? Viber’s new and exciting feature released in late November. It’s all about popular public chats, celebrities, paraded brands. For the time being this function is running in test mode only, and it’s impossible to manually create a new chat. Why? Now your favorite media, brands and celebs are even closer. Twitter lets…
20Rounds, the Israeli video messenger service, has raised $12 million in Series B round of funding. The company was founded in 2008 and since then has undergone significant changes, attracting $22 million in investments and 25 million registered users, the majority of which, according to Rounds CEO Dany Fishel, came in the last couple of…
20The absolute majority of messengers are free of charge. While many people wonder “how do they make money?” messengers are locked in investment battles backstage. WhatsApp’s $19 billion acquisition has set the record straight. Messengers are worth a lot. An entire fortune. WhatsApp Six hundred million active users — every 12th person on the planet…
19Andrew Watts A 19-year-old US student at the University of Texas, who published a story on his blog about his attitude towards social media and messengers. The most interesting excerpts from the text are given below.