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India’s top contender in the global messaging app battle is Hike, which launched back in September last year. Today Hike has been updated with four crucial new features to help

We know that cutesy sticker/emoticon packs are critical to the success of messaging apps in Asia – and they’re also a great way to monetize. That’s why Taiwan-made messaging app

China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), the world’s biggest mobile telco by user-base, has perhaps been inspired by the worldwide success of WeChat and Skype in launching its own app messaging app

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Tencent’s (HKG:0700) deputy general manager Hou Xiaonan has revealed that the company’s social messaging app WeChat now has 190 million monthly active users. That’s from a total registered user-base of

A few months ago we reported that the Indonesian telcos were planning to build a chat app platform together to battle the aggresively expanding foreign chat apps like WeChat, Line,

Once hailed as “China’s Facebook”, Renren (NYSE:RENN) has had a rough few years. First overtaken by microblogging (with new rivals Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo) and then by group messaging

We saw the India-made messaging app Hike launch last summer and then go global in December. In the fast-moving world of social media, that means it’s time for another update.

Oh great, another messaging app. But now that these are clearly ubiquitous social tools, we’ll have to get used to seeing new ones launching that aim to evolve the genre

The world’s top messaging apps might have over half a billion users between them, but plenty of startups still see room for growth – especially in Asia. That’s the case