BBM Shop Hits 1 Billion Views as Stickers, Games Become More Popular Commodities
If you’ve ever purchased a BBM sticker set for yourself, you’re part of a growing set of users who have decided to embrace stickers sold by various messaging apps as…
Have Messaging Apps Really Peaked in the U.S.? Kik CEO Says “Yes”
There’s no debating the popularity of messaging apps. The top dogs are WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Skype, LINE, and Viber. Depending on which part of the world you’re in, some…
LINE Corporation Announces 2014 Yearly Earnings, 181 million Monthly Active Users
LINE Corporation, the owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, today announced their Q4 (October – December) and yearly earnings for 2014. LINE Corporation’s revenue for…
Snapchat Update Quietly Removed “Best Friends” Feature, Upsetting Some Users
Yesterday, we reported on the arrival of Discover for Snapchat, and only afterwards was it discovered that the app’s “best friends” feature, which shows users’ top three most popular friends,…
Kik Messenger Hits 200 Million Registered Users on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
Canada-based Kik Messenger has just announced that it has reached 200 million registered users, which are spread out among Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms. This is a growth of…
After WhatsApp Web Launch, WeChat Spotlights WeChat for Web Benefits
The highly-competitive messaging space is becoming more competitive by the day with this week’s launch of WhatsApp Web bringing the popular Facebook-owned messenger to the desktop for the first time…
WhatsApp Plus Users Being Suspended for Using Third Party Clients
If you’re using WhatsApp Messenger on the “Plus” side and you’re doing it through a third party client, you no doubt have heard that users are being banned for using…