Tencent QQ is already a wildly popular instant messaging platform in China, with over 700 million active users.
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"What is underpinning Microsoft's thinking is that it wants its instant messaging platform to appear safe, " he said.
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The virality of a messaging platform equals its emotion-friction ratio, and the Snapchat paradigm maximizes this virality coefficient.
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Founded in 1998, Tencent first gained an online presence with an instant-messaging platform.
Dropifi Founded in 2011, Dropifi is a Ghanaian web messaging platform which helps companies better analyze, visualize and respond to incoming messages from contacts.
The return of peer-to-peer came by way of a messaging platform.
You might remember Zipwhip from its SMS-enabled espresso machine, but the outfit's hoping a new feature added to its cloud-based text-messaging platform will catch your attention this time around.
The social messaging platform has been doing a remarkably good job lately of casting itself as the benevolent, human-friendly alternative to scary, all-knowing, all-conquering colossi like Facebook and Google.
The Microsoft-owned messaging platform has started testing what amounts to a video voicemail feature on OS X, Android and iOS, something that had already been hinted at in its updated TOS. Why those operating systems at first, without any word about Windows or Windows Phone, we're unsure.
WhatsApp is benefiting from the global clash of BlackBerry, Android and iPhone camps, because it offers a cross-platform messaging solution.
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Digital Trends also reported Friday a rumor that Google has been in negotiations for four to five weeks to acquire cross-platform messaging app, Whatsapp.
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While it's not revolutionary (there's clear traces of the Hotmail app), it provides an avenue for Exchange-based messaging on a platform where access still isn't guaranteed.
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Through text messaging and an extensive online platform, Vineet is able to engage communities at free clinics across the U.S. in preventive healthcare education.
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After signing ESPN in January 2008, the company finally began to stitch its messaging technology into a scalable platform rather than build requirements from scratch for each client.
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WeChat of China, which claims a whopping 300 million users, is also working on building out a social platform, as are messaging apps LINE and Nimbuzz of India.
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There are already a slew of mobile messaging apps, some of which are cross-platform and have been around for a couple years or longer, and already boast tens of millions of users.
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According to TechCrunch, buying TokBox added new services that Telefonica could offer developers through its BlueVia Application Programming Interface (API) platform: these already included voice, messaging and billing APIs when the TokBox deal closed.
Having started as a basic, over-the-top (OTT) messaging service, the company has evolved itself into a social platform where third-party developers can sell apps and take a 20% cut of revenues.
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Both are longtime Yahoo (YHOO) employees who, in 2009 amidst the aftermath of the financial crisis, founded a messaging service that they aimed to be the biggest cross-platform one in the world.
We've funded the development of a platform being hosted by Youth Agenda, which uses SMS messaging to encourage youth to select leaders on the basis of their attributes and policies as opposed to along tribal lines.
Kik is a free mobile messaging service with 50 million users that is transforming itself into a social platform.
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Last week, a social messaging app called Kik announced that an a HTML5-based web app platform it had created on top of its texting service could now send push notifications.
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Rival Kik and the messaging-and-calling service Viber have also both said they are moving towards becoming social platform that act as secondary market places for apps.
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