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Secret Messenger: For Those Who Care to Stay Anonymous

Is Internet going back to anonymity? Do you remember the good old times where we could all hide behind nicknames in online chats? Then we lost it in just one second.   Social networks emerged, demanding (and not even asking for) users’ actual names and surnames. Managers require our phone numbers, so there is no…

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Skype for Web — beta announced

In November, the archaic Skype gave a pleasant surprise to its fans by announcing a web-version release. Time passed but the news remained just news. Only the chosen ones could actually access this technological marvel – an embodied innovation (sarcasm).   Today, March 26, Skype for Web has been released for beta testing. If you…

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It’s official! Facebook Messenger is growing into a platform

Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the social networking giant’s annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco, where he confirmed the rumor that we speculated on earlier.   iOS and Android app stores got a new batch of applications made to work exclusively with Facebook Messenger. Currently, there are approximately 40 of them on offer and we’ll make it…

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Telegram Update. Clouds Are Coming Closer

Russian Telegram is exceeding its usual pace and has released the second update within seven days. Of course, this is far from the world creation that supposedly took a week; however, the new pace and the quality of updates look good. What are they up to this time?   iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive have also been integrated…

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Is Slack Getting More Investments?

Slack is a group chat platform with an integration into third-party services, such as Dropbox, Trello, Basecamp, etc. The app is only one year old but within this year it got: a $2.5-bn valuation, 500,000 Monthly Active Users, and 300 mn sent messages monthly. Even the company’s CEO is at a loss to answer the…

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Facebook Messenger to Become Platform?

On March 25, the F8 Developer Conference takes place. Mashable has found out that during that conference the social network will show about 20 additions to Messenger.

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Telegram Update. # and @

We barely had time to upload the article on Bindle – the ‘legit’ group messaging app – before Russian Telegram’s latest update managed to make it completely redundant.

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Money Transactions via Facebook Messenger. Now It Is Official

One of our previous posts was about a guy who likes to dig into apps for codes using Cycript. Once he came across three code lines suggesting that Facebook was working on implementing P2P payments into Messenger. Before that, yours truly had written a post about “Messengers of the Future”, forecasting this feature to be…