Hike’s decline also reveals the ruthlessness of the space it was operating in — if any social media company does not evolve at fast as the ...

You may be surprised to learn that there’s more to messaging apps than communicating. WeChat is an example of the vast potential that messa...

Paytm’s move seems to be in the reverse direction compared to Hike, which recently launched payments through wallet and unified payment int...

It's very important to establish Hike as messaging platform service in a big way first, before we go and unveil active users, so that right...

The app is holding talks with an Indian bank to support the back end of the payments service, one of the people quoted above said. Hike Mes...

Funds from the latest round, led by Lightspeed India Partners and existing investors SAIF Partners and India Quotient, would be used to ext...

India’s first homegrown messaging platform is banking on its changed timeline and in-built camera, popular features on rival chat apps like...

Instead of lagging behind, India will play a leading role in the development of the global bot ecosystem.

The two companies also partnered with Japanese messaging app Line, which has a feature that allows users to make payments using credit card...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is the top messaging application in India with 52% market share, followed by Facebook Messenger with 42%, Skype wit...

The ‘Diwali Pack’ is Viber’s first customised sticker set for the Indian market and will be available across all platforms, free of cost.

The instant messaging space has been growing by leaps and bounds. It is worth noting that WhatsApp had 200 million users in August 2013.

Even as instant messaging has become immensely popular, a study has said that IM apps will account for just 2 % of the global messaging rev...

WhatsApp is India's preferred mobile messaging application. The youth are obsessed, the older folk too are increasingly shifting from SMS t...

Yeung said that several key initiatives including the WeChat 5.0 upgrade and the global Lionel Messi advertising campaign helped piqued aud...

Facing a likely ban in India, Tencent, the operator of the China's text and voice messaging service 'WeChat' said it has complied with all ...

Tencent launched its mobile chat service called WeChat in India to compete with What's App and Blackberry messenger.