Japan’s Quan Partners with AIS in Thailand for Sticker App
In yet another example of companies from East Asia expanding into the Southeast, Japan’s Quan ...
Posts Tagged: chat apps
WeChat Experiences Short Service Outage, Blames Hardware Problems as Users Complain
Tencent’s WeChat has gotten very big in China (and pretty big outside China, too). But even a ...
Fearing Chat Apps, Vietnam’s Telcos Hike Prices
Across the region, telcos are in a quandary as to how to deal with chat apps like Line, Whatsapp, an...
Tencent Plans Three-Pronged Attack to Monetize WeChat
Tencent’s WeChat mobile chat application has been taking the world — especially China &#...
11 Hot Mobile Messaging Apps from Asia and How They’re Super-Innovative
With the numbers Rick released on mobile messaging apps growth, and Willis’ post on how heated the...
KakaoTalk Releases Vietnamese New Year Stickers
KakaoTalk, South Korea’s number one messaging app, has released new stickers for the Vietnames...
Survey Says Japan is Now Using Far More Chat Apps
As we pointed out yesterday, 2012 was a pretty big year for NHN Japan’s Line chat app. But if ...
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...
NHN Is Going Into Search In Vietnam
In Vietnam, the chat app battle is fearsome. Western competitors Whatsapp and Viber face serious opp...
Official: WeChat Will “Definitely” Have to Pay Fees in China
The battle has been raging for several months now over how Chinese telecoms should be compensated, i...
Are China Telecom and Netease Taking on WeChat with a New Mobile Chat App?
We’ve written a bit lately about how China’s major telecoms are upset with WeChat and ot...
American Copycat: MessageMe is Just a Clone of Popular Asian Chat Apps
American mobile chat app MessageMe has been generating a lot of buzz since its launch just a couple ...
WeChat’s Latest Update Includes a Walkie-Talkie Live Chat
After several people asking us for a review, we finally got two of our team members to update to the...
Japan’s Line Chat App Wants to Reach 300 Million Users in 2013
It was a pretty big year for NHN Japan and its Line chat application in 2012. And according to a Tai...
As Chat App Wars Intensify, KakaoTalk Makes a Push in Japan
Recently we’ve written much about the success of NHN Japan’s Line, both in its home mark...
Chat Apps are Everywhere. What’s Next?
In Asia, chat apps are popping up everywhere. In China, we have WeChat. In Korea, we have Kakaotalk....
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