Video-calling app Tango adds Instagram-like filters & cute animal avatars

Popular video-chat application Tango has spiced up its iOS and Android apps with fun (and gimmicky) new features including video filters, avatars, read receipts, and more.

Now you can use Tango for text messages, as well as video chats

After gaining notoriety for its popular cross-platform video chat apps, Tango has decided to tackle a decidedly lower-tech challenge: text messages.

With the latest Tango update, users will be able to send and receive free text messages in a streamlined …

Round three of our MobileBeat 2012 speakers

We’re a few weeks away from MobileBeat 2012, VentureBeat’s annual mobile conference, where we’ve lined up some of the biggest names in the industry to delve into the event’s core theme: “Design is the new battleground.”

We’ve snagged Ajay Chopra, …

Funding daily: Let’s video chat with our robotic vacuums

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …

Tango video chat gets $40M from Qualcomm and Access, scores 45M users in 18 months

Forget Apple’s Facetime. If there’s one app that shows the potential in the mobile video chat market, it’s Tango.

Almost one year since its last round of $42 million, the cross-platform video chat company Tango announced that it has raised …

Say cheese! Tango offers revolutionary video voicemail service

Video chat startup Tango just can’t stop innovating. After recently launching the first Windows Phone video chat app, Tango is now gearing up to offer video messages, making it one of the first such services to offer a video equivalent …

Facebook may beat Google to adding iOS supported video chat

Facebook’s Messenger application may be adding video chat features, according to a rumor on Italian technology blog iPhoneItalia.

The blog’s source is reporting that Facebook has released a beta test of the new video feature to developers only. The rumor …

Tango gives Windows Phone its first video chat app, beating out Skype

Windows Phone users will finally get their chance to video chat with their iPhone and Android friends, thanks to the hot video chat startup Tango.

The company’s new Windows Phone app, available for free on the Windows Phone Marketplace, is …

Tango’s explosive growth for video calls fueled by rapid 2-week dev cycle (exclusive)

Cross-platform video calling startup Tango has seen tremendous growth since its launch in early fall of last year. One of the biggest reasons for its success, according to CTO Eric Setton, may be the company’s crazy strict 2-week development cycle …

Tango video chat heads to Windows PCs

Video-calling application Tango announced on its blog today that it is now available on desktop PCs. The company originally announced the feature back in July, along with a $42 million second round of funding.

The original Tango mobile app allowed …

Video-calling app Tango raises $42M

Video-calling app developer Tango announced today that it has raised $42 million in its second round of funding.

The Tango app lets tablet and smartphone users make video calls to other Tango users, much like Apple’s FaceTime app for the …