Instagram now has more than 400 million users, the company announced, making it far larger than rival Twitter Inc with 100 million more users. The photo-sharing app has grown rapidly over the
In a world where many people read everything on mobile phones, a few seconds of load time can mean the gain or loss of millions of readers and advertising dollars. Now Google
Yahoo is releasing a mobile messaging app that combines texting with live one-on-one video. The app, called Livetext, is video calling with a twist: there’s no audio. To communicate, users type texts
With an aim to make logging in more secure, video messaging app Snapchat has introduced some new features in the latest version (version 9.9.0.) The features have reportedly been added in both
Software developers who tried on an Apple Watch for the first time on Friday predicted a rush of new apps over the next few months, particularly in areas including health and messaging.
Snapchat, disappearing messages, released its first transparency report showing hundreds of requests from US and foreign law enforcement agencies. Between November 1 and February 28, Snapchat said it received 375 requests from
Facebook’s Messenger app will soon let you send your friends money, the latest in a crowded field of services aimed at an increasingly wireless and cashless generation. Services including PayPal, its Venmo
Facebook, back in April, started forcing the Messenger app on users for mobile chat. The company had then announced that it was removing the chat messaging feature from its main Facebook app,
Snapchat has unveiled that its Stories feature is now the app’s most popular feature, leaving behind the ephemeral Snaps feature that made the app famous. Speaking to The Verge, Snapchat claimed that 1 billion
Snapchat, the disappearing-image message service popular with young people, has now added two new features: text chats (instant messaging) and video calls. However, the new text chats on Snapchat, unlike other social
LG announced its first smartwatch, the G Watch, in March running Google’s Android Wear, a software project that extends Android to wearable devices. The South Korean company however, had revealed that its
Facebook is reportedly looking at integrating anonymity features with the growing popularity of anonymous-sharing apps, such as Secret and Whisper. Facebook has been on a bit of an acquisitions spree lately, picking