With apps like Facebook Messenger and iMessage apparently dominating the iOS messaging apps market, WhatsApp is actually the biggest messaging app on iPhones with a dominant marketshare in most countries, according to Onavo Team's report. The team assessed the big messaging apps in countries around the world to determine which messaging apps are used by the highest percent of...
Last night TechCrunch reported on a rumour popular cross platform messaging app WhatsApp was in talks to be acquired to Facebook. Now, AllThingsD reports their sources say talks aren't happening. The latter was able to get a statement from WhatsApp regarding the story in question: “The TechCrunch article is a rumor and not factually accurate....
Here's a Sunday night rumour to end the evening--TechCrunch reports their sources note Facebook is in talks to acquire WhatsApp, the popular cross-platform messaging app: Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to...
Many have been waiting for this update and it's finally here: WhatsApp Messenger has finally been updated with screen support for the iPhone 5 along with better support for iOS 6: What's New in Version 2.8.62.8.6:- iPhone 5 and iOS 6 improvements WhatsApp has emerged as one of the leading third party cross platform...
Apple's iMessage protocol is currently down for the count, yet again. This is the second outage in five days, with the last outage occurring last Thursday. Messages we have tried sending to our contacts won't show up as "Delivered" and just hang. During times like these, most users will fall back to text messaging (what's...
Yesterday morning the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) updated their stats on the number of text messages sent by Canadians in 2012 Q2. This time around you sent 23.8 billion texts which eclipsed the numbers from 2012 Q1 (23 billion). Here are the highlights of their stats: More than 8 billion person-to-person text messages were sent...
After surpassing 10 million messages handled per day, WhatsApp Messenger has been updated today with encryption for all messages send over WiFi and mobile networks. The team noted in twitter they had implemented "encryption for some time now," but this latest update makes it publicly stated. Other new features include a better message forwarding picker...
Last November WhatsApp announced it had surpassed 1 billion messages sent per day. This morning the app announced another massive milestone on twitter: 10 billion messages sent per day: https://twitter.com/WhatsApp/status/238680463139565568 Back in June, WhatsApp explained why their app isn't free: When we sat down to start our own thing together three years ago we wanted...
WhatsApp was one of the first cross platform messaging apps that enabled iPhone users to chat with friends on BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and Windows smartphones. The company revealed last October it was handling 1 billion messages per day, and only four months later it was handling 2 billion per day, as noted at the Mobile...
A few notable app updates worth mentioning include WhatsApp, Netflix, and Action Movie FX. Let's see what these updates bring to the table... WhatsApp Messenger Last week WhatsApp was removed from the App Store as they had submitted a new version to Apple. This caused some hilarious hoaxes to pop up via chain letters (people...
WhatsApp is one the most popular cross-platform messaging clients, and still a very popular option for many iOS users. The app has frequently been featured as one of the top apps in the App Store and last November surpassed 1 billion messages sent in a single day. Currently, WhatsApp is not in the App Store...
It's still Christmas Eve here on the Westcoast and there's one little freebie worth mentioning: WhatsApp Messenger is currently a free in the App Store. Normally $0.99, WhatsApp is probably the best cross-platform messaging app to allow iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Nokia smartphones to send free SMS messages with each other in real time. You...
