Kik is embarking on the next step of its transformation from over-the-top communications provider to social content company. An embedded browser will let users share any web content directly. Read more »
100 million isn’t quite the milestone it once was, but Kik’s recent growth spurt is elevating the messaging startup above the crowded mid-tier of OTT app providers. Read more »
WhatsApp and a handful of other over-the-top communications apps — including BBM — are cementing their dominance in social messaging across the world. People still love Facebook Messenger, just not as… Read more »
When the consolidation wave in the OTT market comes, there will be winners and losers. Will the losers just fizzle out or find a new way to innovate? Read more »
Tango is retooling its over-the-top communications business around social networking and providing communications services for game makers. It credits that approach to its recent surge in growth, adding 50 million new… Read more »
Carriers thought WhatsApp and Skype would shine bright and then simply fade way, says Genband CEO David Walsh. They were wrong. Now the mobile industry is fighting back with the tools… Read more »
Pinger believes it can build a better and stickier over-the-top messaging service by borrowing features from some of the hippest new social networking apps. It’s starting with GIF messaging but it… Read more »
Why would Google be interested in WhatsApp when it already has a bevy of peer-to-peer messaging and communications apps at its disposal? For the same reason Facebook bought Instagram. Read more »
What happens when infrastructure startups disappear? Innovation doesn’t stop, but the industry definitely loses a critical font of ideas that challenge the big vendor mentality and established standards. Services innovation is… Read more »