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5 WhatsApp Settings Worth Revising

  Source: Flickr, Microsiervos Geek Crew 1. Don’t save ‘incoming media’.  WhatsApp saves all shared images and videos by default. After a while, your device memory fills up with other people’s photos, images, and other unnecessary junk. By unchecking the box you will still be able to receive and view sent files, but leave the device’s memory…

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WhatsApp Purchase. A Year Later

Messaging 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…

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4.3 M Users Change WhatsApp for Telegram

Jan 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…

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They Finally Did It! WhatsApp Rolls Out Free Calling

The 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…

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WeChat Is Trolling WhatsApp. Serves It Right

  On January 22, all IT-oriented resources blew trumpets about the WhatsApp web-version. Well, we decided to join them. The awkward green giant released it in on all platforms (even Nokia S60), except iOS. The reason for the latter was the limitations on the platform itself. It was like “it’s not our fault, blame it…

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MESSENGER PERSONAS. PART I

Behind every popular product there is a genius. Bill Gates was Microsoft’s prodigy, Steve Jobs did it for Apple, and Mark Zuckerber struck gold with Facebook. Billions of people are using products from these companies, while the names of the founders are buzz words. When it comes down to messengers the case is totally different….

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WHATSAPP + ZEROMOBILE = NEW OPERATOR

The other day you may have read information in the press regarding Google’s plan to launch a mobile operator project under the brand name. Even the not-yet-confirmed name of the development surfaced – Nova. Sprint and T-Mobile, the industry’s existing giants, would have helped implement the idea, but so far they haven’t been able to…

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WHATSAPP WEB VERSION – NOT SUPPORTED BY iOS

WhatsApp announced the release of the messenger’s web-version. From now on you can send and receive messages directly in your browser.   This is the app’s first “evolutionary step” since it was bought out by Facebook. To join you need to: Go to https://web.whatsapp.com/ Scan the QR code using WhatsApp, having initially updated the app…

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PAVEL’S PREDICTIONS

Immediately after the launch of Russian Telegram last year WhatsApp’s creator (Jan Koum) spoke about Pavel Durov in one of his interviews, describing him as a man only capable of copying really good products, referring to Facebook and WhatsApp. This was preceded by a loud statement from Pavel, when he claimed without a shadow of a…

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MESSENGER REALITIES: NOW AND STILL TO COME

ANALYST 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,…