December 11th, 2018
Facebook-ownedphoto sharing social platform Instagram has reportedly launched its own walkie-talkie feature. With this,the users can now communicate through voice messages.
Users can hold down the microphone button to record a short voice message that appears in as an audio wave form that recipients can then listen to at their...
October 15th, 2018After Instagram, social networking platform Facebook is prepping up to bring in the feature of ‘unsend’ on its messaging app Facebook Messenger. And thus, soon the feature may be nearing a release.
Initially, Facebook announced that it would be adding the "unsend" feature for everyone in April after it came out that messages CEO...
July 27th, 2018Redkix, an Israeli email startup that provides tools to combines email, messaging and calendar features more effectively into one app has been acquired by Facebook. Facebook made the purchase in hopes of building out its own communication features inside Workplace, which is the enterprise version of Facebook.
Redkix has raised $20...
February 21st, 2017Alibaba's payment affiliate Ant Financial will invest USD 200 million in a unit of South Korean messaging giant Kakao, the companies said today, the Chinese firm's latest step to expand its global reach.
The investment in Kakao Pay comes less than a month after Ant bought US-based payments operator MoneyGram for around USD 880 million...
August 25th, 2016Messaging service WhatsApp has updated its global privacy policy, under which it will now share phone numbers of users with its parent company, Facebook.
While the move will help Facebook offer more targeted advertisements on its own platform, WhatsApp will continue to be ad-free, a WhatsApp spokesperson said.
He added that this is the...
June 17th, 2016Technology giant Microsoft has acquired a messaging-app developer founded by an Indian, as the US-based software firm aims to strengthen its position in the emerging era of combining the power of human language with advanced machine intelligence.
Microsoft acquired California-based Wand Labs, a start-up which builds messaging technology...
