24Slack integrates Google Calendar Slack, the popular messaging app, has integrated Google Calendar. Now a user will see reminders about everything he/she has planned right in the chat app. To get the new functionality to work, a user needs to link his/her Slack account to the Google account, and then choose the Slack channel that…
23The new Skype version for Android makes searching for chats faster Skype has released version 5.6 for Android. In the upgraded version, searching for active chats will take you much less. There have been a lot of complaints that it is hard to see all active chats on a mobile phone screen. The Skype team…
23New button + GIF in Charge GIF images are now very popular on the web. Recently, Yahoo announced it new messaging app, whose major feature is exchanging GIFs. Now Charge messenger has decided to take this path too. Charge’s recent update expands the opportunities of the +GIF button added in June. Now this app’s will…
23LINE has rolled out a lightweight version of the app for the developing markets Japanese messaging company LINE decided to follow Facebook’s steps and release a ‘light’ version of its messenger app for Android in order to saturate the developing markets. The number of the app’s monthly active users is 205 M but almost all…
23Microsoft released a new iOS messaging app Microsoft rolls out a new messaging app aimed at cutting short the time users take to check their e-mail or answer them from a smartphone or tablet. Today the iPhone version was released. The app is called Send and it looks more like a usual IM app rather…
22WhatsApp Android has upgraded to 2.12.294 WhatsApp developers seem to go for outperforming themselves: for the last 24 hrs the messaging app upgraded from version 2.12.189 to version 2.12.194. The latest WhatsApp version for Android boasts new functionality and a few fixed bugs. New WhatsApp alerts The most significant update has been made in the…
22Will GetGems and Telegram cooperate on bots? We have already mentioned many a time in our articles that chatbots are extremely popular among users. It has recently been reported that Facebook Messenger is working on a virtual customer assistant that would help users make purchases. Today GetGems wrote in its official blog that the Russian Telegram…
22Messaging apps in tourism Messengers are developing fast these days. Almost every day new interesting projects appear, and messaging companies which have got themselves firm in the market, are looking to develop their businesses further. WeChat is a good example. This messaging app allows not only messaging but users can also call taxis, buy cinema…
22Sony Pictures Animation is making an animation movie about emojis The whole world is mad about emojis. They have so much become part of our life that now it is hard to imagine any chat or even SMS without them. The time has come for them to go to the big screen. Sony Pictures Animation…
21Facebook refuses to integrate its apps in the Apple Watch The super popular device that emerged this spring – the Apple Watch – runs a risk to be left with no popular apps. The device released in early April and provoked a great hype among geeks. A lot of programmers began to develop apps for…