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LINE – for Buddies and Family, LINE@ – for Business

LINE – for Buddies and Family, LINE@ – for Business LINE corporation, famous due to the chat app of the same name (it is more correct to call it a platform, though), has entered the business solution market and released a new product – the LINE@ messaging app. According to the LINE rep, the company…

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Snapchat Pushes for Gold

  Snapchat 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…

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Line Assigns $42 to Turn Its IM App Into a Lifestyle Platform

    Messaging 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…

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Pushbullet Instead of a Thousand Desktop IMs

Pushbullet 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…

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AppMess Review: Snapchat

 Snapchat is a US media exchanging service with a daily audience of over 100 million users. This is the first and, in most cases, only instant messenger for US teenagers. Despite its huge popularity in the USA, it isn’t doing that well in this respect on post-Soviet territory and the app is hopelessly sitting at…

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IKEA Emoticons

  The 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…

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Line ’s CMO: Idea Inspired by Disaster

One 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…

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Earn Money on Stickers with 4talk IM

  Earn 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…

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Sticker Startup Bought for $27 Mln

  Sticker 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….

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Telegram the Unhacked

The 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…