May 19th, 2016Leading industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in niki.ai , an artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot .
The company has also received funding from existing investor Ronnie Screwvala-led Unilazer, it said in a statement.
It, however, did not disclose the details of the funding or the total amount it has raised till date.
The...
May 16th, 2016In a bid to protect the revenues of traditional telecom companies, Saudi Arabia has now blocked social networking giant Facebook's Messenger service.
Internet calling over WhatsApp and Viber were already blocked in Saudi Arabia but similar apps including Tango and Line are still available in the country.
Although the authorities...
May 14th, 2016India-based messaging app Flock on Thursday launched its App store to integrate frequently used apps and services into its platform.
The Flock App store allows integrations with popular apps such as Twitter, Trello, Github, Jira, Bitbucket, and a few others.
"The App store makes Flock powerful, especially considering the rich...
March 13th, 2016FRANKFURT: A group of former Skype technologists, backed by the co-founder of the messaging platform, has introduced a new version of its own messaging service that promises end-to-end encryption for all conversations, including by video.
Wire, a 50-person startup mostly made up of engineers, is stepping into a global political debate...
January 8th, 2016Facebook Inc's Messenger app surpassed 800 million users, the company said on Thursday, making it the fastest-growing app of 2015 according to research firm Nielsen.
The means Messenger, which Facebook created as a standalone app in 2014, has more active monthly users than rivals Snapchat and Viber, but still lags the 900 million...
December 17th, 2015A Brazillian Judge Sandra Regina Nostre Marques ordered the suspension of the Facebook Inc.’s Whatsapp service for 48 hours after WhatsApp declined twice to turn over data requested by the courts as part of a criminal case, the Sao Paulo Justice Court said in a statement. WhatsApp is the most-used app in Brazil. The recent survey...
