Posts Tagged: WhatsApp


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Line’s Revenue for Q4 2012 Was $58 Million

For the first time since NHN debuted its popular chat app, Line is publicly announcing its quarterly...

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  • May 9, 2013
  • at 4:15 pm
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Zalo Hits 2 Million Users and Plans for 5 Million Soon [INFOGRAPHIC]

I’ve been doing a lot of chat app news in Vietnam lately – the reason is mobile is in a very...

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  • May 6, 2013
  • at 2:00 pm
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Why Blackberry Remains Powerful In Indonesia, and How It’s Still Going to Lose

A lot of my friends have had their fair share of complaints about the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) ser...

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  • March 5, 2013
  • at 3:00 pm
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KakaoTalk Has 1 Million Users In Vietnam (Yes, Just Like Line App)

Yesterday I wrote about Line app and its one million users in Vietnam and stated that rival messagin...

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  • March 1, 2013
  • at 10:46 am
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Zalo: Vietnam’s Flagship Mobile Messaging App Has Arrived

If Vietnam’s got a heated battle for messaging app dominance, where is the Vietnamese contende...

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  • February 5, 2013
  • at 9:00 am
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Blackberry Under Attack As Samsung and Telkomsel Launch New BBM-Like Deals for Android

Today, Indonesia’s biggest telco Telkomsel, together with Samsung Indonesia, launched a BBM-like p...

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  • November 6, 2012
  • at 10:00 pm
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Dear Whatsapp, Aren’t You Threatened By WeChat?

Whatsapp no doubt was the app that started the wave of mobile messaging, timed pefectly to coincide ...

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  • September 21, 2012
  • at 10:03 am
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eBuddy XMS-SMS Rolls Out iMessage-Like Feature, Targets Indonesia and India Telcos First

Group messaging – or so-called over-the-top (OTT) messaging – apps have been featured a ...

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  • April 6, 2012
  • at 9:05 pm
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WeChat Now Has 190 Million Active Users, Close to Passing Whatsapp

Tencent’s (HKG:0700) deputy general manager Hou Xiaonan has revealed that the company’s social m...

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  • May 9, 2013
  • at 11:33 am
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NHN Is Going Into Search In Vietnam

In Vietnam, the chat app battle is fearsome. Western competitors Whatsapp and Viber face serious opp...

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  • April 19, 2013
  • at 11:15 pm
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Viber Has 3.5 Million Users in Vietnam, Way Ahead of Chat App Rivals

Viber’s got 3.5 million users in Vietnam. Besides Whatsapp, whose numbers are still not confir...

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  • March 4, 2013
  • at 12:00 pm
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Line Just Hit the 1 Million User Mark in Vietnam

Line, the mobile messaging app out of Japan, just hit one million users in Vietnam. This is a big mi...

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  • February 28, 2013
  • at 1:20 pm
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The Mobile Messenger War: What’s the Score?

Yesterday we pointed out that Chinese chat application WeChat (known as Weixin in Chinese) had surpa...

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  • January 17, 2013
  • at 10:54 am
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RIM Says BlackBerry Messenger Error Resolved

As we mentioned earlier, RIM acknowledges a wave of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) errors in Asia Pacifi...

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  • October 3, 2012
  • at 11:58 pm
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Andy Zain Explains Why the Indonesian Feature Phone Market is Awesome

Inspired by the viral article about China’s two internets – with a divide between the elite ...

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  • August 27, 2012
  • at 8:10 pm
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Jay Chou’s 31SMS is One Big Confusing WhatsApp Clone

So today’s big news is Taiwanese celebrity Jay Chou’s investment on 31SMS, a WhatsApp clone in T...

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  • September 13, 2011
  • at 10:03 pm
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