Acquisitions are a common thing in the technology world, but there are few that really raise brows and there are even fewer of those which attract regular user attention. One such acquisition…
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Facebook Messenger to land on Windows Phone within ‘weeks’
Windows Phone, the third largest mobile operating platform in the world, didn’t have a dedicated Facebook Messenger app, but that is about to change as Microsoft has revealed during a press conference…
Soon to be Facebook owned messaging service, WhatsApp goes down for hours
WhatsApp, the messaging app for which Facebook is shelling out a whopping $19 billion, went down for hours just days after the acquisition. WhatsApp acknowledged the outage through a tweet, which was…
WhatsApp alternative Threema tops German App Store charts
Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition may have had a negative impact on the latter at least in Germany as within 24 hours of the acquisition announcement, Threema – a Swiss instant messaging app and…
BBM to sport stickers soon
Stickers have been picking up lately and quite a few messaging apps including LINE and Facebook flaunt them as a necessity and one of the primary ways to communicate with friends and…
WhatsApp for Android beta increases privacy; lets you hide your ‘last seen’ status
Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp caused a lot of ripples in the technology world and raised almost all brows across the business and corporate segment with some regulators even claiming that the acquisition…
Rakuten bags Viber for $900 million
Confirming just three days old rumours of Viber on a sellout path, Play.com owner Rakuten has picked up the VoIP capable instant messaging app in a $900 million cash deal. In a…
BBM for Android, iOS updated with ‘find friends’ feature
BlackBerry has updated its BBM app for Android and iOS with a feature called “Find Friends on BBM”. This friend finding feature will remove the need to share PINs for adding a…
WeChat processed 10 million messages in one minute on Chinese New Year Eve
Growing popularity of WeChat in China is evident from the fact that more than 10 million messages were sent in a single minute on the eve of Chinese New Year. The information…
Snapchat account registration CAPTCHA defeated
Snapchat’s security troubles continue as a security researcher has managed to hack its account registration CAPTCHA system with a program of less than 100 lines that took 30 minutes to develop. Steve…
WhatsApp for PC is a banking Trojan in disguise
A spam email campaign claiming to provide WhatsApp for PC download is circulating on the web and according to security experts it spreads banking Trojan with low detection rate. WhatsApp, the messaging…
WhatsApp has 430 million monthly active users, processes 50 billion messages a day
WhatsApp has grown huge to become one of the most popular instant messaging service available today with a whopping 430 million monthly active users by end of December last year. Addressing the…
Snapchat says sorry 9 days after security breach
Snapchat Inc. has released an update to its messaging app and along with it issued an apology for the December 31 breach which exposed details of over 4.6 million users. Snapchat earlier…
Confide lets you send text messages off the record
A new disappearing messages app, something like Snapchat, called Confide has been released that allows users to send messages that self-destruct after they are read. Confide is described as an app that…
Line launches Whoscall to help users block unwanted calls
Messaging chat app company Line has launched a new app called Whoscall that will allows its users to block unwanted calls. Line acquired GogoLook last month and Whoscall app is a rebranded…