30Early this year there was a lot of talking regarding such companies as Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat going public. A lot of market experts and observers had been expecting these currently largest startups to go for an IPO. However, the bitter reality is that the year is drawing to a close and nothing has changed…
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…
21Snapchat has earned just $ 3.1 million The other day, Snapchat released its financial statement and the figures in it did not surprise anybody. No wonder that Snapchat with the evaluation of approximately $20 M is making almost no profit. Lots of startups make losses for years and some go public well before they become profitable….
18WeChat growing in value? According to a report from Bloomberg, the messaging application WeChat is valued at 83.6 billion US dollars, which is about a half of the current market capitalization of Tencent, owner and developer of the messaging service. Regardless of the fact that the value of Tencent’s asset can hardly be measured financially,…
11Snapchat now uses less traffic thanks to the Travel Mode These days sharing videos is an integral part of communication in Snapchat. The app has long stopped being a routine messaging application. However, the lack of good Wi-Fi connection makes it quite costly to watch videos, especially, if you cannot prevent them from automatically downloading…
11AppMess News #17 A new version of Skype has come out for Mac. 7.10 – the latest available assembly – has helped take care of video call errors, rid the app of occasional flickering and video signal loss. The improved video quality is a very significant update that will put a smile on quite a…
10Snapchat has officially announced what the new emoji stand for On August 5, Snapchat messenger released some new emojis, confusing its users even more than before. For a few days running, ‘snapchatters’ were puzzled thinking about the following: Why has a red heart appeared instead of the gold one? What do two pink hearts…
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…
04Can Snapchat really make 50 million greenbacks? According to a post on ReCode, Snapchat is planning to pocket $50 million this year. Frankly speaking, the statement is somewhat off-putting, given that the company began making a profit just a few months back and is currently hunting for a CFO. The team’s decision to work on…
03Hey, guys! As you may have already guessed, this is the latest edition of IM news. Let’s move on to this week’s most captivating news. AppMess News #16 Snapchat is taking things further. The gist of it is that the messaging app decided to change the number of its Discover partners. And so it happened….