27Let me introduce Quickie – a small stylish app for iOS, which allows making one-to-one calls that break a couple of seconds later on a compulsory basis. You can use this app to tell your pal a joke or wish a good morning to a business partner. Sending a text message will not be as…
24On April 16, the management of the team communication tool Slack announced that the last investment round has been closed. As part of the E Round, the startup raised $160 mln and was given a post-investment assessment of $2.8 bn. The creation of the Flickr co-founder, Stewart Butterfield, seriously added in value: in October 2014,…
24In August 2014, the media boasted that investors had estimated Snapchat at $10 bn. The company’s present value is $15 bn. As we can see, by turning down Mark Zuckerberg’s offer to sell their messenger for $3 bn in late 2013, the founders of the photo messaging app, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, put their…
23Kik, the developer of the eponymous messaging service based in Waterloo, Canada, is looking into expanding its service functionality through partnerships or strategic investments from large IT companies. According to media reports, the possibility of selling the biz isn’t even up for discussion yet. As reported by Bloomberg, the company has more than 200 million…
22While Facebook Messenger became a platform only recently, its competitor with a less famous but a more succinct name Kik keeps surprising its users giving them cooler innovations. From now on, the messenger app has got a full-scale browser built in. The innovation introduced by Facebook only now (I mean becoming a platform) was done…
21Singtel, the largest company to provide telecommunication services to over 500 million users in South East Asia has released a Wavee app, which is expected to compete with Skype and WhatsApp. The app is available for gadgets working on iOS and Android. It allows making voice and video calls, and lets you send messages. Wavee…
20Being well behind the flagship Telegram, the WhatsApp messenger has nevertheless implemented Material Design for its Android version. Material Design became trendy after it had been presented at the summer Google conference. We cannot but notice positive changes that took place this year in WhatsApp’s policy: web-version, making calls, and now they have introduced Material…
17Facebook has announced еру the release of the web-version of its Messenger, following the example of Telegram and WhatsApp. If your first reaction was “Why on earth, there is Facebook for that?”, we are playing for the same team. However, after we had dug into some facts, the point of this step became clear to…
16Line management has refiled the paperwork necessary to make an initial public offering in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This does not mean, however, that the IPO will take place this year. A Line rep pointed out that “so far there is no decision regarding an IPO. No more comments on that”. Line, which is being…
14Snapchat is an example of work of a genius based on a simple idea – self-destructing photos in the age of the Internet where all and sundry can be saved. Sometimes users wish to add more functions to their favourite apps, and this is how ‘third-party apps’ come to existence. When this happens (the appearance…