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Here’s why the world’s top messaging apps need to form an anti-Facebook federation to stand a chance of ending Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire.

Whatsapp is the exception.

Another busy year for Tencent, the company behind WeChat, as it splashed cash all over China – and abroad.

China’s Tencent, maker of the WeChat messaging app, has invested US$50 million in Kik Messenger. The funding was confirmed by Kik CEO Ted Livingston.

We’ve seen it happen in the US and Europe, and then in China. Now it’s happening in India. The popularity of sending SMS in India is at an all-time low

Line will soon hit 100M users Yesterday we pointed out that Chinese chat application WeChat (known as Weixin in Chinese) had surpassed the 300 million user mark. And just yesterday

Tencent's Weixin group-messaging app now has 50 million users in China - can it help kill off festive SMS this Chinese New Year? For some watershed moments, you know what’s

Jay Chou in a screengrab from a vid on the 31SMS site. Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou (pictured right) seems to have been inspired by Hollywood movie star Aston Kutcher

Tencent has updated the iPhone version of its Weixin group messaging app with support for video messages and a location-based service (LBS) type function to find nearby users.