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Facebook -owned WhatsApp is finally giving users’ eyes a break by rolling out a dark mode setting to the messaging app — years after some other tech giants figured out how to offer a ‘dimmer pixels’ switch. The messaging giant says the feature is rolling out globally in the “coming days” to the latest version […]

Finally dark mode arrives to soothe your 3am WhatsApps

This entry was posted in Android Apps iOS messaging apps Social WhatsApp and tagged facebook iphone social media on March 3, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

Finally dark mode arrives to soothe your 3am WhatsApps

This entry was posted in Android Apps iOS messaging apps Social WhatsApp and tagged facebook iphone social media on March 3, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

Twitter is pouring a little more fuel on the messaging fire. It’s added a heart+ button to its direct messaging interface which lets users shortcut to a pop-up menu of seven emoji reactions so they can quickly express how they’re feeling about a missive. Emoji reactions can be added to text or media messages — […]

Twitter DMs now have emoji reactions

This entry was posted in Apps emoji messaging messaging apps Social and tagged facebook social media twitter on January 23, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

New Vector, a European startup founded in 2017 by the creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix to drive adoption and grow an ecosystem around an alternative messaging protocol for instant messaging and VoIP apps, has raised an $8.5 million Series A funding round. Investors in New Vector’s Series A round include enterprise […]

New Vector scores $8.5M to plug more users into its ...

This entry was posted in Apps Europe Fundings & Exits Government Instant Messaging messaging apps privacy Security slack Social Startups voip WhatsApp on October 10, 2019 by Natasha Lomas

Brands often act like the person who searches for their keys under the streetlight simply because that is where the light is better. However, when brand marketers focus only on engaging with...

How to profit from valuable peer referrals hiding in Slack

This entry was posted in Advertising Tech Apps Column eCommerce Growth LinkedIn Marketing messaging apps Microsoft Social Startups TC WhatsApp and tagged design google instagram on September 18, 2019 by Arman Tabatabai

People love to share YouTube videos among their friends, which is why in mid-2017 YouTube launched a new in-app messaging feature that would allow YouTube users to private send their friends videos and chat within a dedicated tab in the YouTube mobile app. That feature is now being shut down, the company says. After September […]

YouTube is closing its private messages feature…and many kids are ...

This entry was posted in Apps messaging apps Social TC YouTube and tagged google social media on August 21, 2019 by Sarah Perez

At first glance launching a new social app may seem as sensible a startup idea as plunging headfirst into shark-infested waters. But with even infamous curtain-ripper Facebook now making grand claims about a ‘pivot to privacy’ it’s clear something is shifting in the commercial shipping channels that contain our digital chatter. Whisper it: Feeds are […]

Social chat app Capture launches to take a shot at ...

This entry was posted in Apps artificial intelligence chat messaging apps Social social apps Startups TC on July 16, 2019 by Natasha Lomas

Messaging platform Telegram has added a new bunch of location-based features via an update. Users of the latest version of the app will find an ‘Add People Nearby’ setting which they can use to quickly exchange contact details without the need to type in digits. Coupled with a prior update, which lets Telegram users control […]

Telegram adds location-flavored extras and full group ownership transfers

This entry was posted in Apps messages messaging apps Social TC Telegram on June 25, 2019 by Natasha Lomas

Amazon and Walmart’s problems in India look set to continue after Narendra Modi, the biggest force to embrace the country’s politics in decades, led his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party to a historic landslide re-election on Thursday, reaffirming his popularity in the eyes of the world’s largest democracy. The re-election, which gives Modi’s government another […]

Indian PM Narendra Modi’s reelection spells more frustration for US ...

This entry was posted in Amazon apple music Apps Asia China eCommerce Flipkart Government india Mark Zuckerberg Media messaging apps Policy Social Spotify Startup company Startups WhatsApp and tagged facebook google on May 23, 2019 by Manish Singh

It might be time to move on from BBM. The consumer version of the BlackBerry Messenger will shut down on May 31. Emtek, the Indonesia-based company that partnered with BlackBerry in 2016, just announced the closure. It’s important to note, BBM will still exist and BlackBerry today revealed a plan to open its enterprise-version of […]

The consumer version of BBM is shutting down on May ...

This entry was posted in Android BlackBerry Instant Messaging messaging apps Messenger microsoft windows Mobile operating systems smartphone smartphones WhatsApp on April 18, 2019 by Matt Burns

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The consumer version of BBM is shutting down on May ...