Facebook is reportedly has plans to integrate the messaging services of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. All three will remain as standalone apps, but the underlying messaging functions of each will become intertwined. Work to create a unified messaging infrastructure has begun and expected to be complete by the end of the year or in […]
Kumulos, a leading mobile app performance management platform, has further strengthened its dominance of the fast growing Mobile APM market by adding multi-location API endpoint monitoring to its crash reporting feature. This provides customers with the world’s most advanced mobile app management platform. It’s the only fully integrated platform that lets you manage the technical and commercial performance of mobile […]
Initially aimed at young people living, studying and working in London, friendrequest is the new app looking to lead the way in facilitating friendship. Addressing the challenge of forming actual friendships in a world of ‘social’ media, friendrequest’s aim to ‘take social offline’ emphasises the non-replaceable value of real-life rendezvous, actively encouraging users to spend […]
GeoEdge brings mobile security and quality up to speed. Using the same proprietary, patent-pending technology that powers GeoEdge’s widely adopted solutions for the broader web, it detects security issues, inappropriate and offensive ad creative, and user experience issues at the pre-impression level delivered by any of the major mediator SDKs. The tool blocks the bad ad […]
ByteDance, the Chinese company behind popular short video app TikTok, has decided it is time to take on Tencent in China’s messaging app game. The world’s most valuable startup has launched a video messaging app in a space dominated by WeChat. The app, named ‘Duoshan’, works in a similar way to Snapchat, enabling users to send videos […]
Kiip, a leading mobile marketing and app monetization platform, has partnered with the Purchase Decision Network (PDN), the only ad platform purpose-built for CPG brands, to give CPG advertisers enhanced data for targeting everyday shoppers across mobile devices. The integration makes Kiip the first ad network partner with access to PDN’s exclusive shopping list data, which includes […]
For a small island nation, tucked away in the South Pacific, New Zealand has an interesting challenge: to attract tourists to its picturesque shores, but not too many. With limited space and beds, Tourism New Zealand, the country’s marketing body, must balance the country’s booming tourism industry with practical sustainability. In China, this translates to […]
Square, the payment app founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, now enables developers and sellers to process payments with the platform in their mobile apps. The Square In-App Payments Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to begin taking payments from users with just a few lines of code. The SDK is available on iOS, Android, […]
Whether it’s to find and redeem coupons or to locate sale items, more than half of consumers (57 percent) have used a retailer’s mobile app while in-store, indicating that the industry has reached a tipping point in consumers’ cross-channel expectations, according to a new study by Yes Marketing. However, while mobile commerce is becoming the new […]
Each day, war and conflict forces thousands of families to flee their homes. To reach safety, these refugees walk more than 1 billion cumulative miles across the globe each year. Matching this insight with the global fitness trend, the latest campaign from Hello Charlie, Great State, and the UN Refugee Agency encourages people to connect […]