13Is Telegram secure or not? Russian Telegram is positioning itself as the most secure messaging app. All chat history is stored in the cloud, and secret chat’s encryption is upgrading constantly, giving users a possibility for private communication. But the British online publisher NEUROGADGET recently have put a doubt in Russian Telegram’s impeccable reputation. Telegram’s…
13Is Jam so far only for a limited audience? The management team of Canadian Kik messenger are launching a pilot version of Jam, a chat-based music community, created around the world’s best music bands and performers. First, it will be open only for a few hundred thousand users to help the developers test the newly…
13ChatGrape developers claim that they’ve recently been receiving more and more requests from user asking to turn ChatGrape into an application for Windows Desktop. The company decided to respond to the feedback and came up with not one, but two solutions. ChatGrape icon on the Windows task bar If you can’t help but like the…
13Investors like Spotted Spotted, a German project launched in 2013, has received another tranche of investments. Now it will be rolling out to Japan, Korea, US and North Africa. Of course, it will also continue to conquer Europe. The latest data says that the messaging company has managed to raise $14.5 M. Spotted is a…
13Wire group call innovation Recently Wire’s development team boasted an innovation to the group call set of functions. Now users have end-to-end encrypted phone calls that sound just great – with virtual stereo. From now on, when users pop in their headphones they will hear each other as if they are sitting next to one…
13WeChat keeps actively growing The other day, Tencent published a report demonstrating a new record of its popular messaging app WeChat: the number of monthly active users (MAUs) of the “all-in-one” chat app has reached 600 M. The current figure exceeds the previous value for Q1 2015 by 9.3%. Let us recall that, according to…
12Internet stars get paid for using WeChat? In one of its articles, Xinkuaibao Daily told its readers about a new way to make a living, invented by the venturous Chinese. Now, every public account owner with more than five thousand WeChat followers can earn $158 (1,000 Chinese yuan) in the worst case scenario. The…
12Skype for Business previews for Android and iOS announced! It’s no secret that Microsoft has been working for a long time to find a solution to replace their homegrown corporate messaging app MS Lync with Skype for Business. Today, the company announced a preview of its new application for iOS and Android mobile platforms. To…
12ViBee feature: a continuation of Bumble’s development Nine months ago, the world saw a new application — Bumble. It is unlike other apps in that it focuses on women to initiate a dialog with members of the opposite sex. In early July, the number of initiated conversations reached a million, and, just a month later,…
12Don’t mess with Tinder! Last week Vanity Fair unleashed war with Tinder press service by publishing an article about how messengers similar to Tinder are harmful for relationships of millennials. The response of the company reps was aggressive. On Tuesday, August 11, Tinder began an offensive operation against the author of the article Nancy Joe…