A lot of people have become bored with SMS messaging, and the tech industry is very aware of it. While services such as Apple’s iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp allow you to add photos, GIFs and videos to your messages, they are not...
Related topics: Sms, Apple, IMessage, Facebook, Social Media, Facebook Messenger, Tech Photos, Tech Videos
For more than a billion users across the globe, WhatsApp is the preferred way to communicate. It’s used for everything from communicating with loved ones to conducting business. And if you’re constantly on WhatsApp, you may want to use a...
WhatsApp has decided to completely block the installation of stickers from the App Store on iPhone, and the company removed the shortcut taking users to additional download links.
Basically, by pulling this shortcut, users can no longer launch the...
Related topics: Iphone, Mobile Technology
Giphy today announced an update for its iOS app, bringing its GIF-sharing keyboard extension to any app that supports multimedia, including Mail, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, and more. The update also introduces a "Sticker Maker" feature exclusive...
Related topics: Iphone, Mobile Technology, Ios, Snapchat, Instagram
Telegram continues to be one of the most advanced alternatives to WhatsApp, and the updates that the team behind it roll out every once in a while make it an even more compelling product for those on Android and iOS.
The update to version 5 was...
Related topics: Android, Mobile Technology, Android Update, Ios
In its latest grab from messaging apps, Instagram now lets you send walkie-talkie style voice messages. Apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and iMessage have offered the feature for some time.
The post Walkie-talkie voice messaging...
Related topics: Instagram, Facebook, Social Media, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, IMessage
You’d think Facebook would be faster at copying itself. Five years after Facebook Messenger took a cue from WhatsApp and Voxer to launch voice messaging, and four months after TechCrunch reported Instagram was testing its own walkie talkie...
Related topics: Instagram, Facebook, Social Media, Facebook Messenger
WhatsApp has been one of the few companies which has been supporting the Windows Phone platform and is releasing regular updates. Following the trend, WhatsApp, today released a new update for Windows Phone users which bumps the app to v2.18.206 and...
Related topics: Mobile Technology
It's official: Google's rival to Apple iMessage, Facebook Chat and WhatsApp is saying goodbye.
Related topics: Google, Social Media, Apple, IMessage, Facebook
WhatsApp Beta has been updated to version 2.18.373. The update fixes the previous very buggy build, and also enabled a number of new features. The earlier build brought a new GIF search feature, which can now be enabled in this build using the...
Related topics: Android, Mobile Technology, Android Update
Three weeks ago WhatsApp started implementing a shortcut in group chats in WhatsApp beta for Android which was intended to make it easier to make group calls. At the time the shortcut was non-functional, but with WhatsApp beta 2.18.370 the feature...
Related topics: Android, Mobile Technology
WhatsApp recently received support for 3rd party stickers, and as gifs and stickers become increasingly prominent, the current under-message UI for searching for these animated pictures have become increasingly inadequate. Fortunately, according...
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update to its beta channel for Android users which takes the app to version 2.18.363. The update adds an icon which makes it easier to initiate a group call in the app. Currently to make a group call on WhatsApp for...
Related topics: Android Update, Android, Android Apps, Mobile Technology
One of the most recent WhatsApp features, and which users seem to really enjoy, brings stickers to conversations on both Android and iOS.
And just like on iMessage, users can download other sticker packages from app stores, in addition to several...
Related topics: Apple's App Store, Apple, Android Apps, Android, Mobile Technology, Ios, IMessage
WhatsApp already ruined Snapchat’s growth once. WhatsApp Status, its clone of Snapchat Stories, now has 450 million daily active users compared to Snapchat’s 188 million. That’s despite its 24-hour disappearing slideshows missing...
Related topics: Snapchat, Slideshows
WhatsApp is testing a new feature that should make it easier to add people to your contact list using QR codes, reports WABetaInfo. The report notes that the feature was spotted in a test version of WhatsApp on iOS, but it’ll be available on...
Related topics: Ios, Android, Mobile Technology
When Instagram sold to Facebook for $1 billion in 2013, it felt like a massive sum of money.
Five years later, we seem to be numb to the billion-dollar acquisitions and valuations around us. WhatsApp was acquired for $19 billion. Uber is...
Related topics: Startup, Instagram, Facebook, Social Media
WhatsApp's co-founders always said their messaging app would never show ads, but once the pair quit the company, it seemed inevitable that its owner, Facebook, would find a way to incorporate them.
The post WhatsApp finally gives in to the lure of...
Related topics: Facebook, Social Media
Just like Snapchat and Instagram, WhatsApp will begin to monetize its daily stories feature, showing ads on the service for the first time.
Related topics: Snapchat, Instagram
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update to its beta channel for Android users which brings an option to reply privately to users. The latest update bumps the app to v2.18.335 and brings the following new changes. Reply privately- With the new update,...
Related topics: Android, Android Apps, Mobile Technology, Android Update