Confirming reports from earlier this month that a Google Voice update was in the works, Google…
Category: messaging
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A YouTube messaging feature launches in Canada, Theranos closes its last lab in Scottsdale, Arizona, DoorDash…
China’s Tencent takes on the App Store with launch of ‘mini programs’ for WeChat
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the iPhone, a device that practically invented the smartphone genre…
Voxer adds end-to-end encrypted ‘private chats’
Voice-focused messaging app Voxer has added an end-to-end encrypted ‘private chats’ feature on its Android and…
Kik adds group video chat to its messaging app
Kik, the chat app that’s hugely popular with teens and young people in North America, is…
Symphony, the messaging app backed by Wall St, is raising at a $1B+ valuation
Symphony, a secure messaging service backed and used by 14 of the biggest banks on Wall Street, is…
Forget Spectacles, group messaging is Snapchat’s most important launch in 2016
There was no fanfare and pizzazz, but Snapchat yesterday quietly shipped a new feature that could…
Google brings RCS, a next-gen upgrade to SMS, to Rogers customers in Canada
In November, Google announced plans to bring RCS, a next-generation upgrade to SMS, and something of…