Just when you thought chat app makers had run out of things to say — i.e. because they’ve said it all already, via text, VoIP, videochatting, emoticons, snaps , pokes , stickers , Chat Heads , WHATEVER – along comes London-based app studio Ustwo to pour its distinctive brand of fun-loving mischief into the category . . . → Read More: Move Over Chat Heads. Ustwo’s New App Honk! Wants You To Meme-ify Your Friends With “Visually Explosive” Messaging
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Line, the messaging-app-cum-social network that started in Asia but has spread beyond its home turf to amass more than 100 million users globally, has just added French and Brazilian Portuguese versions of its Android and iOS apps as it looks to continue ramping up its global user-base. It already offers Spanish versions of its apps. The company told TechCrunch earlier this month that the South American market is a priority for it, along with the U.S . . . → Read More: Line Adds French & Brazilian Portuguese Versions Of Its Messaging Apps As It Goes After South America & The U.S.  Just.me , the new project from Keith Teare , co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at incubator Archimedes Labs , has launched in beta as an app for iOS. An Android app is coming soon — due this quarter, according to Teare. We’ve covered just.me before, when Teare previewed it last year at the South by Southwest Startup Accelerator but the startup has generally been in stealth mode. . . . → Read More: Can A Messaging App Beat Standalone Social Networking? Khosla-Backed Stealth Startup Just.me Gears Up For Launch With iOS Beta  Ever since its debut late last year , Samsung’s ChatON application has been a moderate hit amongst folks using iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android devices. Now, along with outing a slightly redesigned logo (pictured above), the Korean outfit’s also updated its app in Google’s sweet OS to version 1.9.5 on handsets, or 1.7.3 if you’re handling one of those larger slabs . . . → Read More: Samsung ChatON for Android gets Olympic Buddy feature, also sports a new logo  With now over 45 million users, while you may not use Line yourself, someone you know (or at least someone they know) probably does. The Asia-centric Skype rival has decided to roll-out some extra functionality and is looking to go a few rounds with even bigger competition . . . → Read More: Line messaging and VoIP app adds ‘timeline’ and ‘home’ features, throws in new platform for app integration  Continuing to (perhaps unintentionally) kick SMS messaging to the curb, Samsung’s taken another, admittedly smaller, chunk of the smartphone crowd, announcing its ChatON messaging app for Windows Phone. It has already claimed a place on Android, Bada, iOS, and BlackBerry devices, plus its own web-based client . . . . → Read More: Samsung ChatON messaging app comes to Windows Phone, cross-platform party planned  We don’t understand exactly what European big-hitter Telef . . . → Read More: Telefónica launches Tu Me app: brings free VoIP calling and messaging to the iPhone  Your friends just don’t get it. While they’re still bumming around in Nikes , dorms and doomed relationships , your life has recently become more serious. That’s why you sometimes need to hide from their constant, mindless barrage of messages, and also why you probably won’t install the newly updated Facebook Messenger app v1.7. . . . → Read More: Facebook Messenger update makes it even harder to blow people off  Yobongo, if you haven’t heard, is a new iPhone app that meshes location-aware messaging with a chatroom-like environment, and it’s kind of amazing. By using a custom algorhytm and different variables including your location, people you have chatted with previously, or even people you know, Yobongo connects you with up to around 10 people in a single “room” and well, from there it’s one big conversation. . . . → Read More: Yobongo for iPhone hands-on |
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