Recent posts

Kik introduces Jam music community

Kik introduces Jam music community

Is Jam so far only for a limited audience? The management team of Canadian Kik messenger are launching a pilot version of Jam, a chat-based music community, created around the world’s best music bands and performers. First, it will be open only for a few hundred thousand users to help the developers test the newly…

Sleight of hand transform ChatGrape into a Windows Desktop app

Sleight of hand: transform ChatGrape into a Windows Desktop app

ChatGrape developers claim that they’ve recently been receiving more and more requests from user asking to turn ChatGrape into an application for Windows Desktop. The company decided to respond to the feedback and came up with not one, but two solutions. ChatGrape icon on the Windows task bar If you can’t help but like the…

“Anti messaging app” Spotted raises $14.5 M

“Anti messaging app” Spotted raises $14.5 M

Investors like Spotted Spotted, a German project launched in 2013, has received another tranche of investments. Now it will be rolling out to Japan, Korea, US and North Africa. Of course, it will also continue to conquer Europe. The latest data says that the messaging company has managed to raise $14.5 M. Spotted is a…

Wire group calls – now in HD and virtual stereo

Wire group calls – now in HD and virtual stereo

Wire group call innovation Recently Wire’s development team boasted an innovation to the group call set of functions. Now users have end-to-end encrypted phone calls that sound just great – with virtual stereo. From now on, when users pop in their headphones they will hear each other as if they are sitting next to one…

WeChat hits 600 M monthly active users

WeChat hits 600 M monthly active users

WeChat keeps actively growing The other day, Tencent published a report demonstrating a new record of its popular messaging app WeChat: the number of monthly active users (MAUs) of the “all-in-one” chat app has reached 600 M. The current figure exceeds the previous value for Q1 2015 by 9.3%.  Let us recall that, according to…

WeChat offers way to make money

WeChat offers way to make money

  Internet stars get paid for using WeChat? In one of its articles, Xinkuaibao Daily told its readers about a new way to make a living, invented by the venturous Chinese. Now, every public account owner with more than five thousand WeChat followers can earn $158 (1,000 Chinese yuan) in the worst case scenario. The…

Microsoft rolls out Skype for Business previews for mobile devices

Microsoft rolls out Skype for Business previews for mobile devices

Skype for Business previews for Android and iOS announced! It’s no secret that Microsoft has been working for a long time to find a solution to replace their homegrown corporate messaging app MS Lync with Skype for Business. Today, the company announced a preview of its new application for iOS and Android mobile platforms. To…

Bumble messaging app presents ViBee

Bumble messaging app presents ViBee

ViBee feature: a continuation of Bumble’s development Nine months ago, the world saw a new application — Bumble. It is unlike other apps in that it focuses on women to initiate a dialog with members of the opposite sex. In early July, the number of initiated conversations reached a million, and, just a month later,…

Tinder VS Vanity Fair who wins

Tinder VS Vanity Fair: who wins?

Don’t mess with Tinder! Last week Vanity Fair unleashed war with Tinder press service by publishing an article about how messengers similar to Tinder are harmful for relationships of millennials. The response of the company reps was aggressive. On Tuesday, August 11, Tinder began an offensive operation against the author of the article Nancy Joe…

Hipchat Messenger LOGO

AppMess Video Review: HipChat Messenger

The app’s number of users and sent messages doubled with every next month. In January 2014, the amount of messages sent through HipChat every second reached 60, while the message history stored 1.2 billion. Great that users were given the possibility to search through it. As of 2015, more than 6 million people used the…