Kik continues to ship new features for its chatting application. Following on the heels of Promoted Chats and its in-app browser comes the hashtag. It’s an easy way to create a group… Read more »
Facebook’s photo sharing service is starting to show some impressive user stats. Just nine months after hitting 200 million monthly active users, Instagram has passed the 300 million threshold. Meanwhile, WhatsApp has… Read more »
Earlier this week a bunch of former Skype employees launched a new app called Wire, which offers Skype-esque voice calls, messaging, and the ability to embed things like YouTube videos and… Read more »
Four years since its launch, Kik is positioning itself as America’s version of WeChat, the messaging behemoth of China. It believes it has the right product (text messaging, the old-fashioned kind)… Read more »
Responsive design and other popular mobile design principles are not sufficient to address the fundamentally different context and needs of users who are every bit as mobile as their devices. Read more »
Facing dwindling software profits after a meteoric rise to the top of the smartphone sales chart, Samsung may have to make difficult decisions to cut services that are draining the bank… Read more »
Whatsapp just got a whole lot more secure for Android users. On Tuesday, the company announced that it’s added a strong encryption protocol to its Android app, which means that Whatsapp… Read more »
Facebook’s Messenger app has grown in popularity — no doubt because the company forced people to install it — and now 500 million people use it every month. By comparison, 600… Read more »
Facebook just introduced ads on Instagram, and hasn’t tried to make money off WhatsApp yet, but the company’s revenue is robust nonetheless. Read more »
WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum will keep his day job (in fact he’s being given 25 million restricted shares to stay put), but he’ll also take a spot of Facebook’s board. Read more »