WhatsApp said that as of July, it has 100 million users in the United States. “This milestone has been a long time coming and it proves that WhatsApp is the solution to the cross-platform divide in America,” the company said in a Thursday (July 25)...
Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WooCommerce, has acquired Beeper, a “universal messaging app” that combines 14 chat networks in one inbox. The company will combine Beeper with Texts, a messaging app that Automattic acquired in 2023, Automattic said in a Tuesday (April 9) blog post. “We began investing in messaging...
Apple Inc. is facing another antitrust complaint. Telegram, the cloud-based messaging app with more than 400 million users, said that in 2016, Apple restricted the messaging app from launching a gaming platform on the grounds that it violated App Store rules, the Financial Times reported. Pavel...
SoftBank’s Yahoo! Japan is merging with Naver Corp’s Japanese messaging app LINE in a deal that will give each company a 50 percent stake, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (Nov. 18). The deal creates a mega-platform with more than 100 million users across...
August 07, 2017
Staying in business for 166 years is no small feat on its own — but staying successfully in business with continued growth against increasing competition from FinTech startups is harder still. As of last week’s earnings news, it is clear that Western Union is up for the challenge. Western Union’s Chief Technology Officer David Thompson told Karen Webster […]
July 07, 2025
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and the chief executive of Block, on Monday (July 7) introduced Bitchat, an experimental messaging service that lets smartphones trade encrypted texts over Bluetooth rather than the internet. The app, now in beta on Apple’s TestFlight, links nearby phones into a mesh network that relays messages from device to device, allowing […]
July 25, 2024
WhatsApp said that as of July, it has 100 million users in the United States. “This milestone has been a long time coming and it proves that WhatsApp is the...
April 09, 2024
Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WooCommerce, has acquired Beeper, a “universal messaging app” that combines 14 chat networks in one inbox. The company will combine Beeper with Texts, a messaging app that Automattic acquired...
July 30, 2020
Apple Inc. is facing another antitrust complaint. Telegram, the cloud-based messaging app with more than 400 million users, said that in 2016, Apple restricted the messaging app from launching a...