05Talk About Weird Startups It is a well-known fact that the best way of creating an original startup is to find a vacant niche and fill it with your product. Pooductive creator Ricardo Gruber has a very interesting take on the idea: his texting app lets you exchange secure messages with a person who is…
04K-Minute on KakaoTalk If you are into Korean pop culture in all its manifestations (trust me, there are a lot of worthy things to see, hear and read), you’ll love the special surprise from KakaoTalk messaging app: K-Minute. It is essentially a bot that you can follow and receive messages from a number of accounts,…
04The year 2015 has set new highs for the volume of investments into instant messaging apps and market growth rates in general. Valuation of WeChat of US $83.6 bn silenced skeptical analytics claiming that WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook for US $19 bn, was overvalued. Leading investors in the IT industry continue to increase their shares…
03Snapchat Development The messaging app Snapchat, in spite of all sceptic predictions, is continuing to pursue a balanced and long-term development policy. In the framework of this strategy, Anthony Pompliano became the head of the business operations team a couple of days ago. He used to lead Facebook’s growth and user engagement departments. Brian Theisen…
02The new name of Daum Kakao Daum Kakao Corp., the owner and developer of the popular messaging app KakaoTalk and many other services integrated in the platform app, has decided to change its name to a shorter Kakao Corp. Corporation Daum Kakao started its operation in October 2014 following a merger of Daum Communications and Kakao….
02HipChat Update The messaging app HipChat has presented new, exciting and useful functions. Now users can integrate all of their favorite RSS, Facebook and Twitter feeds into one of the Rooms. App engineers claim that user-created Rooms are personal assets. Therefore, they can be used for anything, including cute kittens, as long as the user…
01A messaging service from LinkedIn Most Internet users are registered in the LinkedIn, a service used mainly for professional networking. Nonetheless, very few of them use the network’s messaging service. The network’s management is clearly aware of that, as LinkedIn has upgraded its messenger recently and promised many more “carrots” soon. The renewed communication tool…
01Inflow of Money in Dubsmash Dubsmash is a Berlin-based startup company with a team of 15 people. It spent roughly two years on developing the eponymous video messaging app. The messenger has innovative velfie functions: pick a famous song and record yourself singing along to it (known as lip-syncing). The other day, the company was…
31Another scandal around Snapchat Snapchat messenger is being attacked with critics again after the word was spread that the list of advert views that Snapchat charges brands for includes so called “zero-second-views”. This information came from sources in the advertising industry. According to the sources, such a system of collecting statistics (which certainly results in…
31Calls through Skype If you are a fan of calling via Skype and you use this option often enough, then you will appreciate the latest update of this app. Now the app has new calling options to offer, they allow you to get in touch with people all over the world for a small fee. You…