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...

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...

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

Hike said that these tech veterans have invested in the company in their personal capacities and are playing advisors to it.

Facebook wants retailers to communicate with their customers on it, instead of on their own sites.

A global study of the digital attitudes and behaviours of 60,500 internet users across 50 countries, 55 per cent are on instant messaging e...

Paytm appears to be building complementary capabilities backward -started as a mobile wallet in 2014, the service now nears 100-million use...

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.

Google had reportedly made offer of over $10 bn (Rs 60,000 crore) to buy Whatsapp, which was ultimately bought by Facebook.

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...

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 ...

Chinese instant messaging app is putting money into R&D to help it run on all Indian 2G networks.