September 6th, 2017Facebook Inc is gearing up to make money from WhatsApp, the messaging service used by more than a billion people every day, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
WhatsApp is testing features that would allow businesses to chat with their clients on the app, according to the report.
It has started a pilot program that would...
August 12th, 2017Hike Messenger, the messaging app founded by Kavin Mittal, son of Bharti Airtel founder Sunil Bharti Mittal, has acqui-hired Creo, a Bangalore based tech-startup. The startup is known for making TeeWe, an HDMI based video streaming device. Hike Messenger, which is operated by Bharti SoftBank Holdings Pte. Ltd.
Creo, earlier named as...
August 1st, 2017Facebook has recently acquired its former Head of Platform for Android, Charles Jolley's conversational AI Startup Ozlo. The Ozlo team is expected to join Facebook to work on natural language processing challenges.
Ozlo will be working with Facebook on building experience powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning in...
May 8th, 2017Indians make 50 million minutes of video calls daily via WhatsApp, the highest compared to users in any other part of the globe.
WhatsApp, a popular messaging app that competes with the likes of Hike, Googles Allo and Viber in India, started offering video calling feature in November last year.
The video calling feature also...
October 26th, 2016India’s home grown messaging platform, Hike Messenger, has launched video calling feature on its app.
Video calling, the beta of which was rolled out in September this year to a select set of less than a hundred thousand, will now begin to roll out to the entire userbase starting with Android users this week.
Live Caller Preview...
September 21st, 2016Search engine giant Google has launched its AI based messaging app Allo, which would compete with the likes of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Available for both Android and iOS platforms, Allo will also mark the debut of Google Assistant in a preview edition.
"Whether it is planning a night out or just catching up, we rely on...
September 19th, 2016As per the sources Facebook hired Snapdeal former executive and a high-profile investor Anand Chandrasekaran to help develop strategies for its Messenger app. The announcement could be made tomorrow.
Both Anand and facebook didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Anand Chandrasekaran resume includes company like...
August 31st, 2016WhatsApps recent decision to share user data with parent company Facebook today reached the doorsteps of Delhi High Court, which sought the governments response on the modification.
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra issued notice to the Centre on a plea by two users of the most popular instant messaging...
July 18th, 2016Japan's Line Corp saw its shares rocket on their Tokyo debut, extending a strong start in New York the day before, and taking the value of the messaging app firm to $8.6 billion in the year's biggest tech IPO.
The operator of the world's seventh most-used messaging app listed first in New York in a move widely seen as a sign of...
June 25th, 2016On my way to work in Bangalore last week (I’m an intern at a chatbot company), I was listening to Radio One, an Indian radio station, when I heard an ad for a competition. At first, I didn’t think much of it. Phone-in radio shows are nothing new in India. But then the radio show host said something curious: “WhatsApp us your...
May 31st, 2016Started by IIT, IIM and Ivy League alumni; Gurgaon-based news technology start-up NewsBytes launched its automated bot on Facebook Messenger. The beta version of their cross-platform bot is a part of Facebook's Messenger program revealed at F8 conference. It is known to be India's first news bot.
In its one year of existence,...
May 20th, 2016Internet giant Google's Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has announced several new features like 'Google Assistant', 'Google Home', a new messaging app called 'Allo' and video calling feature 'Duo' at the ongoing I/O (input/output and 'Innovation in the Open') conference in Mountain View, California.
'Google Assistant' helps one with...
