Facebook Facebook Messenger’s audio and video calling reaches 300M usersTechCrunch - Josh ConstinePhase 1: Kill SMS. Phase 2: Kill Skype, FaceTime, and your phone. Phase 3: Profit? Facebook is making strides towards becoming a multi-media communication juggernaut, its head of Messenger David Marcus
Skype Exclusive: Microsoft working on Skype Teams, its own Slack competitormspoweruser.com Editor’s Note: Skype Teams will likely get renamed to “Microsoft Teams”, and it’s set to launch on November 2, 2016. It was recently reported that …
Apps Yik Yak yearns to be local, not just anonymousTechCrunch - Josh ConstineAnonymity has proven a dangerous path for startups like Secret, so Yik Yak is pushing a soft pivot towards connection with people close by. You can still share anonymous quips on the sagging college app,
Twitter The REAL reason Slack became a billion dollar companymedium.com - Satya van Heummen Slack is a dream for every startup founder, investor and VC. It’s the fastest growing startup ever, which is amazing considering it’s a SaaS startup. …
WhatsApp WhatsApp adds support for document sharing, but only PDFs at launchTechCrunch - Sarah PerezWhatsApp, the Facebook-owned mobile messaging service that recently hit 1 billion users worldwide, is today rolling out a much-anticipated feature to its apps on iOS and Android devices: document sharing.
Skype Slack voice calling arrives on desktopTechCrunch - Josh ConstineSlack was being cheeky when yesterday it said voice chat would start testing “very, very soon”. Today the new “Calls” feature starting rolling out on Slack for desktop and on the Chrome browser. It lets
Voice Mail No More Voicemail is an app that kills voicemail so callers have to text you insteadTechCrunch - Sarah PerezVoicemail is so last century. The idea of phoning someone then leaving a rambling message when they don’t pick up seems decidedly antiquated in the age of instant connectivity, where friends, family, and
Daily Active Users Slack will soon start testing voice and video chatTechCrunch - Josh ConstineSlack is gunning for Skype and Google Hangouts with the 2016 product roadmap it revealed today. The biggest change coming: the ability to seamlessly turn a text chat into a voice or video chat will begin
Mobile messaging app Telegram passes 100 million monthly active users, a 60% increase in 9 monthsVentureBeat - Paul SawersBARCELONA, Spain — Mobile messaging app Telegram has passed 100 million monthly active users (MAUs), the company announced today. During a keynote at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Pavel Durov,
Millennials How BBC is using Yik Yak to talk to millennials (and get them to talk back)Digiday - Ricardo Bilton BBC has already experimented with Whatsapp, WeChat and Line in an effort to reach readers on the apps they’re already using. Now, it’s going deeper …
Apps Chat App Company Tango, Valued At Over $1 Billion, Makes More LayoffsTechCrunch - Jon RussellMessaging app Tango has made further layoffs as new CEO Eric Setton continues to orchestrate changes in a bid to transform the struggling company’s fortunes. Setton, who moved from CTO to CEO last month,
Messaging is eating the app store: New Tribe app growing 80% weeklyVentureBeat - John Koetsier, SingularThe new Quartz app tells you the news like a friend sending texts. Messaging apps command bigger audiences than social networks. And now Apple is featuring the one-week-out-of-beta video-messaging app
Snapchat Imagining Snapchat’s FutureTechCrunch - D.J. SherretsSnapchat could be used by over 1 billion daily active users in time and substantially accelerate how many videos and photos people share and consume. But there’s more to be done and questions to be answered.
Icon version of the Flipboard logo Why messaging is the future of the news brandfusion.net - Felix Salmon
HipChat adds Cloudo for centralized cloud storage search in your team chatTNW - Nate SwannerHipChat just added a plugin that will help you keep track of all your cloud files, no matter where you store them. With Cloudo, HipChat users can search for files in just about any cloud storage solution,
Startups Slack Wins A Crunchie For Fastest Rising StartupTechCrunch - Sarah Buhr DavisSlack is growing up and to the right and as such a rapid climber won a Crunchie last night for Fastest Rising Startup at TechCrunch’s 9th annual awards show. Slack also claims to have a more diverse workforce
Apps Tribe Is A Nifty Walkie-Talkie AppTechCrunch - Romain DilletMeet Tribe, a new social app for iOS and Android that is going head-to-head against Taptalk, Snapchat and countless other social messaging apps. Tribe is an interesting take on messaging thanks to its
GIF Animations Messaging App Kik Begins Offering Branded GIFsTechCrunch - Jon RussellBrands, start your GIF engines. Kik, the chat app with over 275 million registered users, is giving companies the chance to augment their existing marketing efforts with branded GIF campaigns on its messaging
WhatsApp passes 1 billion monthly active usersVentureBeat - Ken YeungWhatsApp has joined a growing club of services that can now count having more than 1 billion monthly active users (that means 1 in 7 people in the world use it), Jan Koum, the head of the Facebook-owned
Apps Asian Messaging App Firm Line Is Developing A Digital Butler ServiceTechCrunch - Jon RussellLine, the Asian messaging app company known for its cute animated stickers, is developing a digital butler service as it bids to boost its revenue with standalone apps and services. A source inside Line,
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Automatically send your important emails to a private Slack channel with this integrationTNW - Ben WoodsThere’s a certain appeal of handy tools that serve only one job, and when it comes to email, simplicity saves time. Despite Slack billing itself as a tool to put an end to email (spoiler: pretty sure is
Enterprise Workato Chat Bot Brings Enterprise Workflow Into SlackTechCrunch - Ron MillerAs we head into 2016, enterprise chat applications like Slack are suddenly a hot commodity, and if you’re inside chat a good portion of the day the argument goes, you should be able to access other work
Messaging Walkie-Talkie Voice Messaging App Roger Lands $1M Led by Social CapitalTechCrunch - Jon RussellRoger, a walkie-talkie-style voice messaging app that launched in late 2015, has landed a $1 million seed round led by Social Capital. Voice messaging — known as push-to-talk — is nothing new. It originated
WhatsApp WhatsApp Ditches $1 Annual Fee, Tests Business Accounts But No Ads, Says CEOTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenToday at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of big announcements about how the messaging app plans to evolve to its next phase as it approaches 1 billion
THE MESSAGING APPS REPORT: Messaging apps are now bigger than social networksBusiness Insider - Business Insider Intelligence, BI IntelligenceThis is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence,Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about Business Insider Intelligence, click here. Users around the world
Skype for Business Skype Brings Group Video Calls To Mobile DevicesTechCrunch - Sarah PerezIn celebration of its 10-year anniversary, Skype announced today the launch of free group video calling on Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows 10 mobile devices. The feature has been available for a couple
Slack Appoints Company’s First Chief Security Officer And Chief ArchitectTechCrunch - Lucas MatneySlack just slated a former Palantir exec for its new Chief Security Officer position and an Ex-Facebook employee, who worked on the company’s AI efforts, for its newly created role of Chief Architect.
Chat App Kakao Buys Majority Stake In Korea’s Top Online Music Service For $1.5BTechCrunch - Jon RussellKakao, South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging app that merged with Internet company Daum in a $3 billion deal in 2014, is pinning its international expansion hopes on music after it announced plans to
