In a move to get more people to try its sleek email app Outlook.com, Microsoft has smartly added Google to its list of chat services, joining Facebook and Skype chat.
The popular mobile messaging company Kik isn't sweating Facebook Home.
The online social-entertainment service has 3.3M monthly participants and a $55 million revenue run rate.
How do you stand out from the plethora messaging apps out there? For Chorus.im, it's by aiming for something more than just a messaging app.
Skype's long-awaited video voicemail feature is finally here.
Whatsapp calls acquisition rumors "not factually accurate."
Facebook yesterday updated its standalone Messenger app on iOS to fully support the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, while also adding some useful features for chat addicts.
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If the message of the massive Airtime launch yesterday was that meeting new people is the new new thing, Imo.im has a comeback: Chatroulette’s 15 minutes of fame are over for a reason, and it wasn’t just the johnson problem.…
Just after Apple announced iMessage app in iOS 5, it appears that Google has its own Android messaging client in the works, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The paper didn’t have any additional details on Google’s messaging app, but just …
This morning, AOL executive Jason Shellen sent a company-wide e-mail urging employees to test AV by AIM, a new web-based video chat service for the company’s instant messaging client.
TechCrunch, a subsidiary of the company, was not included as an …
Workface is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains …
Facebook can’t remind us enough that its new messaging service, announced today, isn’t an email killer. Instead, it’s an all-encompassing messaging system that works across Facebook chat, email, and text messages.
Now that we’ve seen the product, it’s clearly not …
Facebook and Skype are teaming up for extensive integration of the social network in the next version of Skype’s software, sources tell AllThingsDigital.
The partnership will allow Facebook users to easily log into Skype using Facebook Connect and will give …
Watchitoo, which lets distant friends see and discuss content simultaneously in a shared window, is opening to the public today. (We covered the service in May, when it was in private beta testing.)
The site lets you search for YouTube …
LiveMarkets launched a service yesterday that lets Web site visitors click on an advertisement and immediately IM chat with a salesperson from the advertiser.
While other startups offer ways of managing the buyer-seller relationship online, LiveMarkets keeps the chat live …
