Maker of CryptoFight lands investment from gaming pioneer Calvin Ayre
Monday, May 20, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Kronoverse Corp. has secured a lead investment in its seed round from Calvin Ayre, online gaming entrepreneur, and founder of Ayre Group and CoinGeek. The investment comes on the heels of Kronoverse’s groundbreaking announcement last month that it will use the Bitcoin SV [BSV] blockchain to power CryptoFights’ game networking layer. Ayre is a key backer of B...
SendBird chat platform for developers adds $50M to their raise
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
SendBird has announced that it has raised an additional $50 million, bringing its total Series B funding round to $102 million. The company extended the round in order to meet the rapidly growing global demand for in-app user-to-user messaging. Tiger Global Management led the extension, with significant participation from the initial Series B lead, ICONIQ Capital. ...
SendBird raises $52M
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 by Richard Harris
SendBird announced the closing of a $52 million series B round of fundraising led by ICONIQ Capital and joined by existing investors, Shasta Ventures, August Capital, Y Combinator, and Funders Club. SendBird will use the funding to rapidly scale the company to fully address today’s $4.2 billion service addressable market for user-to-user messaging services. SendBi...
Diffusion data streaming platform gets an update
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Push Technology released new functionality in their Diffusion Intelligent Data Platform to increase security authentication and authorization handling, facilitate easy transitioning from REST-based applications to streaming data applications, simplify development of multi-user and collaborative applications, and enhance data compression for large payload distribution ap...
WhatsApp chooses Nexmo for their business solution
Monday, August 6, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Vonage announced that Nexmo is a provider for the new WhatsApp Business solution. In limited availability, WhatsApp is now opening its doors to businesses, allowing them to communicate with their customers on a more engaging platform.
By leveraging Nexmo APIs to simplify their integrations and handle the complexity of maintenance and operations, WhatsApp Business use...
Engaging mobile app users with Flurry Push
Monday, May 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Sending push alerts to mobile users isn't anything new, but knowing "just when to do it" for the best engagement can be a bit more tricky. To help, Flurry from Oath has unveiled Flurry Push, a free offering from the new Flurry Marketing Suite that enables app developers to send targeted messages to re-engage and retain users across Android and iOS. With Flurry Push, mob...
Stack Overflow for Teams launches
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Stack Overflow has announced the launch of Stack Overflow for Teams, the new platform that allows development teams of any size to quickly find answers to questions without disrupting their workflow. Teams is a private, internal central knowledge source where team members can find answers to their questions quickly and efficiently. Stack Overflow for Teams presents a ne...
A Blockchain messaging platform that's unstoppable
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 by Richard Harris
Today’s instant messaging is about to get a violent shove forward by way of encryption, and Blockchain. Almost all messaging platforms rely on client to server communication, where a unique ID is given to a thread, and stored in a centralized database somewhere. But it’s always been volatile to censorship, network blocking, or any other form of controlled policing....
Creating an app on Blockchain technology using JavaScript
Thursday, February 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
As Blockchain technology comes into its own, it is becoming increasingly important for software developers and programmers to acquaint themselves with the benefits which blockchain can provide the architects and users of digital platforms and applications.Lisk is an application platform whose Software Development Kit allows users to code in JavaScript to build Blockchai...
Diffusion 6.0 messaging platform launches
Friday, October 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Push Technology has announced the release of Diffusion 6.0 - Push Technology’s data streaming and messaging platform is available on-premise, in-the-cloud, or in hybrid configurations. Speed, resiliency, and ease of scalability are the fundamental requirements for Mobile and IoT application development. Challenges created by unreliable and congested networks stand in th...
The frontiers of messaging and chatbots
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Eloise Bune
The appetite for chat can’t be satiated. Facebook recently announced 1 billion users on Messenger and WeChat continues to dominate the app universe in China. Messaging apps are forecast to hit 2 billion users by 2018. Way back in 2015, the monthly active users of the top 4 messaging apps overtook the top 4 social media apps, leading many to believe chat is the new socia...
What Developers Really Think of Chatbots
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
VisionMobile has released its first report on Emerging Technologies, the Chatbot Developer Landscape 2016. This report provides an overview of the emerging landscape of chatbot development and examines developer awareness and perceptions about chatbots. It is based on a large-scale online developer survey that reached an impressive 16,500+ respondents from 145 countries...
Apcera Announces Support of New Open Source NATS Streaming Solution
Friday, July 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Apcera has announced that it is providing support for the new NATS Streaming solution, a performant, secure and simple open source messaging platform. NATS Streaming offers features that enable support for new classes of applications such as IoT and big data analytics. The platform is tightly coupled but loosely integrated with NATS, providing enterprise grade features ...
Vibes Releases New Mobile Transactional Messaging Platform
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Vibes has launched a new transactional messaging solution to enable companies utilize automated service messaging programs across mobile channels. The company also has released its 2016 Transactional Messaging Consumer Report, which delves into consumer perceptions and preferences in service-based messaging.Vibes new Catapult platform offers transactional messaging feat...
TigerText Offers PaaS Messaging Platform for Enterprise App Development
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 by Richard Harris
TigerText had released its new platform-as-a-service (PaaS), which allows developers to integrate secure messaging capabilities into any application. TigerText’s encrypted messaging platform keeps communications safe, improves workflows, and complies with industry regulations.The platform provides a secure messaging SDK that gives developers full control over the user i...
Acision Releases New APIs and SDKs for Its Forge Cloud Messaging Platform
Monday, January 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Acision has announced several enhancements to be available in its newest release of the forge by Acision platform, which provides a suite of APIs and SDKs for enterprise cloud-based messaging, voice and video.Included is a new self-service developer portal providing access to the forge SDK, APIs and A2P messaging services. After signing up for an account, enterprise dev...
TigerText and MobileIron Offer Mobile App Developers Secure In App Messaging
Monday, November 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
TigerText is now offering its secure messaging platform through the MobileIron AppConnect ecosystem, allowing MobileIron customers to securely text both within and outside their companies while enabling IT to enforce messaging policies that secure corporate data.MobileIron’s AppConnect technology for third-party mobile app developers provides native application experien...
Urban Airship’s Push Messaging Platform Rolls Out New Functionality for Mobile User Engagement
Saturday, August 30, 2014 by Richard Harris
Urban Airship has announced enhancements to its push messaging platform including cross-platform support for widgets and button-enabled interactive notifications in iOS 8 and rich notifications in Android 4.3 and Amazon Fire OS.The new enhancements were added to help drive deeper engagement outside of apps, on device lock screens and in the Notification Center, by offer...
Artisan Brings Mobile Marketing Automation to In App Messages
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Artisan is now offering a new automated in-app messaging platform. Artisan's new in-app messaging capabilities are integrated into its Mobile Experience Management platform and will allow developers and marketers to communicate dynamically with users while they're engaged with a native mobile app.Without touching the underlying code of their app, developers can customiz...
Android Market Too Big to Ignore so Nokia Debuts Nokia X Android Platform
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft might own Nokia, but Android rules for mobile apps (sorry Apple) and thus Nokia has debuted new smartphones running the Nokia X software platform based on the Android Open Source Project.Nokia’s recent announcement included a number of new details, which made it somewhat confusing unless you paid close attention, which we did. The Android OS is obvio...
Take Note App Developers: The Mobile Home Screen Holds the Key According to Study by Mobile Possee
Friday, December 13, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
You want some serious statistics? How about the fact that users pick up their smartphones upwards of 100 times a day. A four-year smartphone user is 80 percent more likely to pick up their phone 30 times or more a day than a user with less than two years of smartphone ownership. And your daily users - the ones providing you with the greatest revenue potential - are two ...
