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PAVEL’S PREDICTIONS

Immediately after the launch of Russian Telegram last year WhatsApp’s creator (Jan Koum) spoke about Pavel Durov in one of his interviews, describing him as a man only capable of copying really good products, referring to Facebook and WhatsApp. This was preceded by a loud statement from Pavel, when he claimed without a shadow of a…

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WECHAT AND LINQ LAUNCH “SMART SUITE”

Simply texting isn’t enough for 2015. That’s why messengers, considering their amount of users, are trying to engage in other activities: online gaming, shopping, banking. After CES 2015 WeChat announced its cooperation with Ayla Networks and Caesar’s LINQ Hotel & Casino. They presented the first jointly-furnished luxury suites.   As you enter the suite there…

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DUROV, MONEY, TELEGRAM

Talks about the dominance of messengers and their current overabundance on the market are like talks about the weather and politics — you can talk all day long without saying anything in point of fact. Such a number of applications for communication can be explained quite simply: not a single market player has been able…

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EMOJI ART

Emoji are the smileys that are used in social media and instant messengers.

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MEGACHAT IS THE NEW SKYPE

The end of last December saw a succession of news headlines from the flamboyant Kim Dotcom – starting with his heroic deal with hackers, that took down both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, and going as far as spreading rumors about the creation of new messengers.

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WE ARE SOCIAL: THE MESSENGERS ARE COMING

WE ARE SOCIAL IS AN AGENCY THAT CONDUCTS RESEARCHES IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL MEDIA. THE OTHER DAY THEY RELEASED AN INTERESTING REPORT, WHICH DIRECTLY RELATES TO INSTANT MESSENGERS.

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MESSENGERS OF THE FUTURE

App stores are packed with messengers. Each one captures the audience over a certain territory. Looking ahead it is obvious that future messengers will span across all grounds.   They are a real pain in the rear for mobile operators, who are losing billions due to the reduced number of sent text messages. Considering the…

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DASHER GIFENGER

  It is difficult to surprise anyone with a messenger in 2015. Humongous WhatsApp, where the number of users is nearing a billion Viber with stickers and public chats KakaoTalk, Tango, LINE with games Encrypted Telegram. Sometimes it seems that the number of messengers is increasing faster than the number of their users. Everyone is…

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SKYPE SWINDLERS

 20 JANUARY WITNESSED NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS OF FRAUD AIMED AT SKYPE USERS.  According to one of the users, the scammers used an account from the list of contacts to try and persuade the contact to transfer some funds to a third-party account. The amusing thing is that the messages from swindlers were seamlessly wedge into an already…

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INSTEAD OF EMAILS: Facebook at Work

People working in teams have long since developed a tendency of replacing their awkward email clients with faster and more functional services, like Yammer, Slack and their analogues. The other day Facebook (that’s trying to race everyone to the finish line) started testing a special messenger (or, as an option, an expansion of an existing…