23The ex-CEO of the VK.com Russian social network has been making quite a few public offences lately. First, he was rude corresponding with Viber CEO, calling Viber stickers “shit”. This time he went at WhatsApp. During his interview on September 21, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2015, Pavel Durov began to talk about WhatsApp saying that “it…
22Between morning and midday on Monday, September 21, Microsoft’s Skype stopped working correctly. An unknown failure caught the app at about 8.23 GMT. Without wasting their time, users of the app from all over the world began hanging posts about this error in social networks. Curiously enough, Skype keeps operating on many computers and portable…
21Homemade stuff Three months ago Alexander Zharov, the head of Roscomnadzor (Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media), has suggested developing a Russian national IM app as part of the current import phase-out program. The first to take up this initiative were IT-engineers from the Disprice project team in Novosibirsk….
20On September 9, Apple unveiled several of its latest projects at an event held at the Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco. Since we’re focusing on the Apple Watch, it makes sense to say that an updated operating system watchOS 2 came out for it. Open access for third-party apps can be considered the biggest…
19YouTube falls behind Facebook Messenger is rapidly gaining momentum: the app took second place among US’s most popular apps. This is a very good result, especially considering the fact that the software was imposed upon users last year. Facts provided by ComScore tell us that the messenger conceded first place to its parent company –…
18If you thing of think of a Samsung IM app, then you can recall the story about the ChatON app that worked for four years and then disappeared from all markets. The Korean development company realised that it has no chances competing with such a heavyweight as WhatsApp. Just half a year after their first…
17As we all remember, three years ago Mark Zuckerberg offered to buy Snapchat for $3M. The developers of the photo-messaging app said no and time shows that this was the right decision. As it was reported, a few days ago, Snapchat itself became the owner of a young Ukrainian startup called Looksery. Unofficial sources claim…
16Many Snapchat users have probably felt like rereading an important message that they received in the app. Fortunately, Android and iOS gadget owners can now make use of this opportunity: the latest app update allows users to look at deleted messages once again, but for a small fee. Restore three messages for $0,99, ten for…
15Lots of us, most likely, are frustrated by the fact how difficult it is to find a messaging app for making group calls in a fast and simple way. First of all, this process can be quite tiring. The caller first has to put his recipient on hold, then call another contact and let him/her…
14The Chinese version of mobile app WeChat has released a service that allows users to take out loans without any restrictions. The service got a very straightforward name – Weilidai, which means “small loan” in Chinese. It doesn’t matter how big or how small the loans are. The fact is that this service will give…