LINE Adds 2 Million New Users in First 24 Hours After Major WhatsApp Outage
LINE has never been one to back down or fail to point out where the competition needs work after they’ve suffered an outage or two. Back in July, WeChat’s outage…
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Instant Messaging to Account for 75% of Mobile Messaging Traffic by 2018, Will Generate Only 2% of Revenues
A new report from Juniper Research highlights the growing disparity between traffic volumes and revenues in the mobile messaging market. It states that despite accounting for 75% of the traffic…
Viber Acquired by Japan’s Rakuten, Looks to Meet LINE Head-to-Head
There have been whispers of acquisition reaching our inbox in the past few days and as we sought confirmation of the validity behind these rumors, Viber was indeed being purchased…
LINE Bringing Its App to Telefonica Subscribers in Exclusive Firefox OS Partnership
We haven’t heard much regarding plans of the calling and messaging apps to bring service to users of Firefox OS. Up until now, most companies have been content to focus…
WeChat Grows 379 Percent From the 2nd Quarter to 4th Quarter of 2013
It’s no secret by now that WeChat has been growing like crazy. The platform has been rapidly expanding beyond messaging in recent months and this has only served to heighten…
LINE for Windows Phone Gets Tweaked, Improved, and Debugged
LINE has just released a small update for Windows Phone devices that includes some general performance improvements along with some bug fixes and even a few changes. LINE version 3.2.0…
WhatsApp Messenger Now Has 430 Million “Active” Users, Far More Than the “Registered” Counts of Other Apps
Messaging app WhatsApp has reached 430 million monthly active users, according to the company’s CEO at the DLD conference in Munich. This is a pretty sizable jump from the 400…