Topic: messaging apps
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Asia's B2B Marketing Secrets: 5 Game-Changing Strategies
B2B marketing in Asia relies heavily on chat applications like WeChat in China, replacing traditional email and professional networks with integrated communication and CRM tools. Japan has digitized its business card culture using systems like Sansan, transforming physical cards into valuable dat...
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Customer Engagement Is Now in Their Pockets
Modern customers expect personalized, timely interactions across all platforms, with engagement relying on meaningful experiences that fit into their daily routines. Effective omnichannel strategies, including messaging apps like WhatsApp, lead to higher customer engagement and shopping frequency...
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How BlackBerry Messenger Revolutionized Texting
Two decades ago, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) disrupted the costly SMS market by offering a free messaging service, saving users money and bypassing wireless carriers. BBM was ahead of its time as an "everything app," integrating features like music sharing, money transfers, and social updates long...
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How AIM Revolutionized Online Chat
AIM was a definitive online chat platform that shaped social interactions and internet culture, allowing users to forge identities through screen names and away messages. Despite its massive popularity, internal corporate resistance at AOL limited AIM's potential, as executives failed to monetize...
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T-Mobile's Satellite Service Adds Google Maps, WhatsApp, and X
T-Mobile has expanded its T-Satellite service, powered by Starlink, to include popular apps like WhatsApp, Google Maps, X, and AccuWeather, enhancing connectivity for users in areas without cellular signals. The service is free for most T-Mobile subscribers or available for a $10 monthly fee, aut...
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Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Get a Teleprompter and AI Writing Assistant
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are introducing an EMG handwriting feature, allowing users to send messages by writing in the air using muscle movements detected by the neural band. A new teleprompter feature enables users to display and navigate notes or scripts from their phone directly within the...
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Google's Next Android Tablet Upgrade Supercharges Multitasking
Google is developing a new multitasking feature for Android tablets that allows users to launch any app in a floating, resizable bubble window through a simple drag gesture from the taskbar. This enhancement aims to address the historical weakness in Android's multitasking capabilities, potential...
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Automattic CEO Admits Tumblr Is His 'Biggest Failure'
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg considers the acquisition of Tumblr his biggest professional disappointment, as it remains unprofitable and operates on a separate infrastructure from WordPress, with a paused migration plan due to the immense scale and cost. Despite Tumblr's financial drain, Mullenw...
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WhatsApp Now Translates Messages Directly in Chats
WhatsApp is rolling out a new in-chat translation tool for iPhone and Android users, enabling instant message translation in private chats, groups, and Channels without leaving the app. To use the feature, users long-press a message and select "Translate," choosing the language for translation, w...
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