Most of us are familiar with mobile messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, but there are others that cater to different regions of the world. With the rise of internet access and smartphones in the majority of countries, instant […]
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WhatsApp Video Calling, Tabbed Chats For iOS Surface In Leaked Images
Popular messaging service WhatsApp rolled out voice calling to iOS, Android and Windows Phone earlier this year. Facebook Messenger and Viber have already been offering video calling. WhatsApp was rumored to be working on video calling feature for months to […]
Bangladesh Blocks Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber
According to reports in national media the government of Bangladesh blocked Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber on Wednesday morning. The blocking order followed the announcement of the Bangladeshi Supreme Court upholding the death penalty to war criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ahsan Mohammad […]
Chat App Viber Rolls Out Games In 5 Countries, Will Expand
Chat application Viber wants to better compete with the popular Skype and hopes it will grow with the help of social games. Viber was acquired earlier this year by Japanese-based Rakuten for $900 billion. Prior to that, social media giant […]
Viber Reaches The Milestone Of 100 Milllion Concurrent Users
Despite no shortage of competition, Viber is the leading mobile communications platform which offers both free messaging and free phone calls in HD quality between users. The company announced that it can now claim over 100 million concurrent users online […]
10 Top Mobile Messaging Apps: WhatsApp, Viber, Tango, LINE, Kik
Mobile messaging has become hugely popular all over the world, with trillions of messages being sent on a daily basis. Apps have sprung up all over the world to address this craze, thus here we count down ten of the […]
Nokia X Family Of Android Smartphones Launched At MWC 2014
Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) has launched a new family of smartphones — Nokia X — at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The first three budget smartphones in this family are: X, X+ and XL. These devices run on the […]
Rakuten Announces Acquisiton Of Messaging App Viber
Billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani’s e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc (TYO:4755) has decided to expand its reach by purchasing the messaging and calling service Viber for $900 million in a move in to social networking. Viber shopping With the announcement, Mikitani said that […]
Viber Launches Viber Out, Lets You Call Phones Cheaply
Viber, the popular messaging app, has officially launched its new feature, called Viber Out. This new feature lets Viber users make calls to mobile and landline phones worldwide, much like Skype Out. In fact, the similarity can even be figured […]
BlackBerry’s BBM Surprises With User Engagement Numbers
While BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) has lost most of its relevance for the vast majority of smartphone users, or at least those unconcerned with the NSA’s spying tactics, the Waterloo, Ontario-based company has recovered some of this lost relevance through the […]