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WeChat’s Chinese Twin Grants Loans Right and Left

WeChat’s Chinese Twin Grants Loans Right and Left

The Chinese version of mobile app WeChat has released a service that allows users to take out loans without any restrictions. The service got a very straightforward name – Weilidai, which means “small loan” in Chinese. It doesn’t matter how big or how small the loans are. The fact is that this service will give…

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Yahoo! Messenger Not Secure & Company Does Not Mind

Yahoo’s trademark laziness and unwillingness to correct its own mistakes, even if they are served on a silver platter, make the app notoriously unique. Security expert, Julian Arens, voiced a story in support of the aforementioned fact. He said that he sent a vulnerability report to the company as early as May 2014. In response,…

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Appmess Video Review: QQ Messenger

The messenger’s beta version was available in its basic form on third generation Symbian, and, having transformed along the way, the app did make it into 2015 and is actually one of the top players on the messenger market. Let’s cut to the chase and try to figure out what made the legendary app so…

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WeChat suggests “creating” in a big way

WeChat messenger has allowed (that goes for iOS users only, though) users to create messages of the “rich media” type. This phrase means that a message can include a text, photo, A/V recording or user location simultaneously. In order to create such, let us use this word, installations, you need a device running on iOS….

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Completely New ICQ Update For iOS

ICQ is still among the most popular applications for online communication. It wouldn’t be fair not to mention the fact that this texting client has lost a huge part of its user base over the past couple of years. In spite of this, the engineers of the software haven’t stopped working on enhancing and improving…

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AppMess Review: Threema free download

Three years ago, a new messaging app, Threema, stormed into the PlayMarket’s and AppStore’s top paid apps list. At first glance, you wonder why anyone would buy something that the market is already full of. We are already spoilt for choice as it is with free apps, such as Wire, Telegram and Confide! But it…

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WhatsApp Vulnerability Spotted

According to open source data, a fifth of WhatsApp’s billion-strong user base favors the app’s web client. As a matter of fact, the aforementioned version of the service was launched just a short while ago and has already managed to cause a few significant problems. A couple of days back, representatives of an IT company…

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Kik Introduces QR Codes

It isn’t know whether Tencent representatives said something during the Kik investment deal, or whether the conclusion was independently drawn by Ted Livingston’s team, but the fact remains: the Canadian messaging app ripped off one of the main features of Chinese messaging app WeChat – the QR code. Last month, company co-founder and CEO Ted…

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Threema Releases “Stylish” Update

Threema’s project team — a mobile app based on secure user communication and data protection — has released yet another update for Android devices.

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Weird Hangouts Glitch — Not Everyone Can Chat

If you are an Android user we suggest that you don’t rush to update your default Google apps that include the new version of Hangouts (4.0). Due to a developer error, some users of the latest version will not be able to connect to the message server. Western media reports on how the bug manifests…