02Snapchat plans on snatching third place in the list of the world’s most valuable start-ups. In order to achieve this the company is planning on attracting an investment of $500 million, taking Snapchat’s estimated value up to $19 billion. Media agency Bloomberg was first to spread the word that, according to an anonymous reliable…
02Messaging app Line, which aspires to be more than just a messaging service, plans to turn itself into a “lifestyle” platform. For this purpose, Line is launching an investment fund with a $42 million budget, whose major target will be investing in startups able to expand the services offered within the app. The…
27Pushbullet is an app that syncs your device with your PC. It is largely based on push notifications that can be adjusted to fit any event. Weather forecasts? PB notification. Favorite team wins match? PB notification. You can also select the notifications you will get upon arriving to a certain destination, like work. Moreover, PB…
27The last thing everyone expected of IKEA was the release of their own branded stickers. The Swedish furniture manufacturer surprised everyone by launching an app for both iOS and Google Play. Users, who install it, get access to a huge archive of branded stickers. We have to give it to the designers – not…
27One of Russian language magazines has published an interview with Jun Masuda, the chief strategy and marketing officer with Line. Line is the corporation, known in the post-Soviet territory mostly thanks to its instant messenger. Here are the main points that we picked from the long interview. As early as 2010, NAVER (which consequently was…
27Earn Money on Stickers with 4talk IM 4talk IM is a messenger released in 2014. Once more candidate to push WhatsApp and Viber out of their top positions in the market, characterized by the ability to work on different platforms and, presumably, high speed. Presumably, because no tests have proved it yet. We have…
27Sticker Startup Bought for $27 Mln What’s the deal? Monotype has acquired Swyft. Who are they? Monotype Everyone has heard of Monotype without even realizing it. The corporation is the rights holder of such popular fonts as Helvetica and Times New Roman. Among their customers are Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, FIFA, Intel, Nestlé, and Nike….
25The Durov brothers are keeping the $300,000 cash prize Yet another Russian Telegram contest has come to an end. The essence of the competition hasn’t changed — you needed to hack into a private chat within the messenger and acquire the emails together with their passwords from the fake conversation between two bots named Nick and…
25This post should have been called ‘Idiots online’, but that’s a bit too harsh. A Snapchat snapshot became a key piece of evidence in a homicide investigation. This is how it went down: 16-year-old high school student Maxwell Marion Morton shot his classmate. You probably wouldn’t have heard about this if he had just shot…
25A very treacherous path lies ahead of Google on its road to uniting calls, messaging and video! Google announced that as of 16 February the company no longer supports one of its products — Google Talk. Thus, the users are left with no other option but to switch to Hangouts. A very treacherous path lies…