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Rumor: Microsoft reportedly purchasing Discord for US$10 billion

March 24, 2021 by Alex Hernandez

Reportedly, Epic Games and Amazon were also in the fray and considering the purchase of Discord. VentureBeat has also reported that the company had been discussing sale options with “multiple parties.”

Yahoo Messenger is closing up shop on July 17th… time to jump ship

June 9, 2018June 9, 2018 by Alex Hernandez

Yahoo is providing a way to download your chat history if that’s something you think you need to do.

AOL Instant Messenger is shutting down for good on December 15th

October 7, 2017 by Kyle Funk

Just about everyone at some point was using AIM or the other IM platforms.

Another Google project shuts down… so long Google Spaces!

February 24, 2017 by Jason Bouwmeester

The news was posted in a support article linked from the main Spaces web page — a mere 9 months after Google Spaces launched.

Google Allo elbows into the messaging app wars

September 21, 2016 by Jason Bouwmeester

Allo brings stickers, doodles, Incognito encrypted messaging, Smart Replies, and Google Assistant preview to your smartphone.

Latest update for Google Hangouts lets you record and send video messages

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 by Jamie Moxon

Google has begun rolling out an update on the Play Store for the company’s chat application Google Hangouts. The update is said to add support for … Read more…

Facebook Disabling Messaging In Mobile Web App, Pushing Users To Messenger

June 4, 2016June 4, 2016 by Justin Jelinek

In the not too distant past, there were myriad ways of checking your Facebook messages. You could check on the actual desktop website, use the … Read more…

Do We Really Need All These Google Messaging Services?

May 20, 2016 by Jamie Moxon

A few Google I/O’s ago, rumours swirled about Google launching a standalone messaging system for Android which would rival Apple’s iMessage. This was soon to … Read more…

WhatsApp Makes Its Service Free For Everyone

January 18, 2016 by Jamie Moxon

WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service, is to drop its token $1-a-year subscription to go fully free for every user, the company’s chief executive has announced. Speaking … Read more…

Yahoo Livetext All That And The Kitchen Sink

November 27, 2018July 29, 2015 by Alex Hernandez

Connecting with friends and family is important to all of us and there are a plethora of ways to make those connections. Phone calls, text … Read more…

Inmoji Brings Monetization To Messaging

November 27, 2018January 13, 2015 by Alex Hernandez

Strolling through CES is a daunting task, there really is no way to see absolutely every single last product being presented there. Sometimes you just … Read more…

Bebo Is Back With A #Bang

November 27, 2018December 21, 2014 by Jonathon Brearley

Bebo was a very popular social network for a few years, and it was actually one of the most popular in the UK. It was … Read more…

EU Approves Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp

November 27, 2018October 4, 2014 by Jonathon Brearley

I still have a hard time getting my head around the fact that lines of code can be worth $19 billion, but EU regulators have approved the Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp, the widely used cross-platform messaging app. WhatsApp is a really popular app and currently has over 500 million users. It functions over a data connection, so if you get your friends using it you can stop paying for that painfully overpriced SMS and MMS plan of yours, and, at the root of it, it basically does the same thing as Facebook Messenger.

New Xbox One Features Announced: Social Updates, DLNA, Pre-loading, And More

November 27, 2018August 12, 2014 by Jason Bouwmeester

Since the launch of the Xbox One, Xbox has been constantly updating the console to make their next generation console even better. Today at Gamescon, … Read more…

imo Discontinues Support For All Third-Party Messaging Networks

January 23, 2017March 1, 2014 by Alex Hernandez

In an email sent out to imo users, the company has decided to discontinue support for third-party messaging services. The company says it wants to concentrate on strengthing its own services and effective March 3rd support for all others will terminate. With all of the available messaging services on the market it makes some sense that imo would want to focus on its own development. Although some users do enjoy having a place to concentrate all of their services in one place. We will see what user reaction is to this announcement, could go either way. Read the full email after the break.