31Founder and CEO of GTN Telecom, Echovox, chairman of echo6, advisor at Punchd Ifeelgoods, Inc., investor of Path, View, Inc., EpaiLive, August, Combatant Gentlemen, Shyp, Informedika Inc., Feedly, Boostable, Patreon, Hello, Xapo. Former President of PayPal, Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, owner of patents “Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Pre-Check In”, “Operations of payments on a mobile device through a mobile carrier”.
28M is a digital assistant A new peer of personal assistants in the market has been released to the market – it’s called simply M. Siri is available only for iOS users, Cortana is mostly targeted at Windows and Android, Alexa will show you search results from Amazon, Google has Now Google. Despite all this,…
23Vurb to compete against Kik? Popularity of WeChat is seriously gnawing at the American messengers. Practically every distinguishable player on this market chooses the path of “all-in-one platform”. Kik openly announces its intend to follow this path, having attracted US $50 from Tencent. Snapchat is following suit with Discover as does Mark Zuckerberg integrating payment…
11Are popular messaging apps going to fall under the control of Baku? Passions about messaging apps are rising worldwide. On a regular basis politicians come forward with the desire to limit the capabilities of texting apps or ban them altogether. This June, popular communication services like WhatsApp, Skype and even social network Facebook were temporarily…
09Is WeChat the best messaging app? One of the top authors on the Wires portal, David Pierce, has written an article that we believe to be very interesting. The main idea is that people are in need of one, all-encompassing messaging app. So far, the only pretender is WeChat. The author called it so for…
30Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp monetization plan announced! WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are the two giants among messaging apps. Each has a great user base. Therefore, it would be bizarre if the investors would not ask Mark Zuckerberg to define and implement a monetization strategy. However, after the 2015 Q2 earnings call was published, Zuckerberg stated…
28Let’s talk about this week’s main headlines. Seems that another app is eyeing Snapchat’s audience – BeMe. A famous Youtuber, Casey Neistat, has gone into the startup game by launching a new messaging app. BeMe is planning to encroach upon the target audience of Vine, Instagram and Snapchat. It’s planning to win them over with…
27Hike entered the list top 10 popular apps among Indians India’s population supports its home producers. The Hike messaging app has been put on the list of India’s top ten apps. Quettra – a company that analyses the tastes and preferences of over 10 M Indian users – published a report the other day. The…
22Will GetGems and Telegram cooperate on bots? We have already mentioned many a time in our articles that chatbots are extremely popular among users. It has recently been reported that Facebook Messenger is working on a virtual customer assistant that would help users make purchases. Today GetGems wrote in its official blog that the Russian Telegram…
21A new friendly Invi messaging app for Android and iOS The Invi messenger, which came out in beta this month, is making its way in the market, which is dominated by such monsters as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and WeChat. Invi’s major goal is to give users an enjoyable communication experience. The development team has taken…