28Make money from WhatsApp Ever since Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion last year, Zuckerberg has been getting loads of questions regarding the company’s plans to make money from the new asset. So, with the way things stand today, every day the largest social network is less likely to make at least a few bucks off…
27PLEDGE 1% This week the Super messenger team hung a post about joining Pledge 1 program in its blog. Initiated by Marc Benioff, the Salesforce.com creator, this charity program allows a company/person to pledge to give away 1% of what they have – money, time, product – for the needs of young, homeless people, invalids…
26Telegram 3.0 for iOS devices The second product of Pavel Durov – Russian messaging app Telegram – has released its version 3.0 for iOS devices. We have already told you about the Bot Platform but the Apple Watch version is worth a separate article. According to the development team, the app allows viewing the recent dialogues…
26Snapchat political struggle One of the most popular North America apps is trying its hand at political struggle. The messenger has opened a vacancy of “Content Analyst – Politics & News” for the time while the presidential election race of 2016 will last. Observers believe that providing Snapchat makes good preparatory work, it’s going to…
26Slack has been growing Platform for collaboration at work Slack has been constantly growing since it launched a year ago. The company founded and run by Stewart Butterfield (the Flickr founder) has already got 1.1 M daily active users. About a third of them pay for premium accounts, thus bringing the company $25 million of…
25Chat bots idea A few years ago, a Nimbuzz app with a small user base (and now somewhat forgotten) launched “chat bots” option. These bots could give you a weather forecast or send a user his/her horoscope. In the end, the platform was sold, however the mighty potential behind this idea was never unleashed. Today,…
25Sign up to the Messenger specifying surname, name and the phone number Mark Zuckerberg wants Messenger to be used by everyone, even by those who dislikes Facebook and do not use it. Since 24 June residents of the US, Canada, Peru and Venezuela can sign up to the Messenger specifying only (!) their surname, name…
25LINE Messenger is 4 years old! Line Corp, the Japanese company, is celebrating this event by posting in the company’s official blog, launching a funny commemorative cartoon online, celebratory wallpaper, and animated graphics. Now let’s talk about all of them in turn. In its official blog, LINE has thanked all of their 300 M customers…
24Viber presented animated stickers For the first time in its history, Viber Messenger has presented animated stickers. These are the characters of the new Disney/Pixar animation film Inside Out, who live inside the head of an 11-year-old girl called Riley. Five manifestations of her emotions – Fear, Joy, Disgust, and Sadness – are going to…
24DarkRoom new release DarkRoom messaging app’s new release is literally a new step in the project’s history. Developers said that if you want to use the app, you first need to delete the old version from your device and install the new version by downloading it from the App Store. DarkRoom 0.0.1 came out under…