It has certainly been an interesting month for messaging apps in the U.S. Around the same time the New York Times penned its zeitgeist proclamation that messaging apps like Snapchat will… Read more »
Snapchat is distancing itself from its core messaging feature with its new Discover product. Instead of offering new communication tools, it’s focusing on media content to hook users. It’s hoping that will… Read more »
Snapchat’s user growth seems to have stalled toward the end of 2014, according to new Comscore numbers I obtained on Friday. As you can see from the below graph, Snapchat hit a… Read more »
That savvy Secret. The anonymous sharing network, which recently redesigned its entire product to save itself, isn’t going quietly into that dark night. It unrolled a new feature Monday allowing people at CES to view and… Read more »
Remember the popular ’90s social networking app Bebo? Yeah, me neither. The Facebook predecessor, which dominated British social networking for awhile, sold to AOL for $850 million in 2008. The corporate… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Today on Twitter’s first ever analyst call, the company previewed a massive range of products it’s developing. Here’s a rundown on the most important features. 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 »
Snowball aims to make your life easier by aggregating all your messages from various chat applications in one place. Will that be enough to make it take off? Read more »