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THE CHATBOT MONETIZATION REPORT: Sizing the market, key strategies, and how...
Improving artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the proliferation of messaging apps — which enable users and businesses to interact through a variety of mediums, including text, voice, image,...
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8 iPhone apps that teens constantly use
My sister is 14 years old — and constantly glued to her phone.She and I are both iPhone users, but the apps I can't live without don't seem to demand the same kind of time commitment as hers do. The...
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Facebook's best-kept secret is a second website that's amazing for talking to...
Everyone and their grandmother knows all about Facebook. You can't not. The social network has more than a billion daily users across the globe.It's an essential part of modern life.What's less...
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Savings chatbot Digit debuts on Messenger (FB)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Fintech Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.The proliferation of chatbots in financial services sustained momentum this...
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Facebook is starting to test ads in Messenger as it runs out of space to put...
Facebook is running out of room to place ads in the News Feed, so it's turning to Messenger.The social network has begun testing targeted ads in the Messenger app in Thailand and Australia, according...
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Hundreds of millions of Facebook Messenger users are making voice and video...
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.During last week’s earnings call, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
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Facebook Messenger is testing new emoji reactions
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Facebook is exploring new ways to make its chat app more engaging for...
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Facebook Messenger has perfected its Snapchat clone (FB, SNAP)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Facebook Messenger is rolling out its Snapchat stories clone, dubbed...
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Facebook is taking ‘inspiration’ from Snapchat wherever it can
Late last week, Facebook began to roll out the latest feature for its Messenger app, Messenger Day. As previously teased, it lets you take photos, decorate them with various doodles and filters, and...
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THE ANDROID MESSAGING EVOLUTION: How Google is responding to messaging app...
The communications market is in the midst of an all-out war. The deluge of messaging apps, such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, and Viber, have over-run the segment traditionally owned by SMS...
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Skype just got its biggest update in over a decade as it goes on the...
"Skype" is pretty much synonymous with "video chat"— Skype, which Microsoft bought for $8.5 billion in 2012, has been downloaded over a billion times on smartphones alone, not including PCs and other...
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THE BATTLE FOR THE SMARTPHONE CAMERA: How messaging apps are leveraging the...
First came emojis. Then stickers followed. And now photos and videos have become integral to messaging apps that once could convey nothing more than plain text. Thanks to the ever-growing popularity of...
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Irish money messaging startup cofounded by a Facebook veteran raises €25...
MADRID, SPAIN — Dublin-based Money messaging app Plynk has raised €25 million (£21.7 million) from a Swiss investment trust, in what it claims is the biggest ever "Series A" investment for an Irish...
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Facebook Messenger wants to become the new Yellow Pages (FB)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Facebook is rolling out a new Discover tab for Messenger to make it...
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Facebook Messenger's David Marcus shrugged off accusations of copying Snapchat
Not many big apps have transformed as drastically as Messenger in recent years.Originally just a component of Facebook, the messaging platform was spun out into an optional alternative standalone app...
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Facebook Messenger is bringing significant value to brands like Sephora and...
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Facebook’s efforts to turn Messenger into a major channel between...
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Apple iMessage use outstrips Facebook Messenger and Snapchat among US youths...
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Apple’s native over-the-top (OTT) messaging app, iMessage, could be...
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THE CHATBOT MONETIZATION REPORT: Sizing the market, key strategies, and how...
This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here.Improving artificial intelligence (AI)...
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These 5 apps make better phone calls than your phone app — and you probably...
The phone app that comes with your smartphone is fine, but it uses your carriers' decades-old technology.Meanwhile, there are plenty of apps out there that use newer technology for better-sounding...
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Facebook adds new features to Messenger as competition heats up for business...
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Facebook unveiled three updates to Messenger on Thursday that help to...
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