Hong Kong unrest spurs app downloads

First-time installations of Telegram in Hong Kong quadrupled year-on-year in July, as citizens turned to …

Telegram claims animated sticker breakthrough

Messaging app company Telegram reworked the format of animated stickers to reduce the amount of …

Hike out to fix “broken” app model

LIVE FROM RISE, HONG KONG: Kavin Bharti Mittal, founder and CEO of India-based messaging app …

Gartner tips messaging apps to surpass social media

Messaging apps are catching up to social media apps and will likely eclipse them in …

Q&A: Tim Gallagher, SafeSwiss

Security communications provider SafeSwiss launched a messaging app it hopes will rival the likes of …

Facebook tops list of secure app makers, Tencent fails

Facebook, Apple and Telegram took the top positions in an Amnesty International survey of how top messaging …

Top messaging apps hit 4.2B monthly users

The top iOS and Android mobile messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger, WeChat and Snapchat had a combined active user base of around 4.2 billion monthly users by the end of 2015, according to an IHS report, an increase of 38 per cent from 2014.

Bangladesh expands restrictions to Twitter, Skype, imo

Bangladesh’s government expanded its restrictions on social media apps, ordering the country’s mobile operators and …

Bangladesh unblocks Facebook, but not other apps

Bangladesh’s government lifted its ban on Facebook but has not moved to unblock Viber, WhatsApp, …

App usage rockets in 2013; 2014 “crucial” for messaging apps — Flurry

App usage increased 115 per cent year-on-year in 2013, according to analytics firm Flurry, with …