More and more people in developing nations are turning to mobile messaging apps instead of SMS. As they do so, they’ll find that there’s a huge variety of social messaging apps to choose from.WhatsApp goes for cool simplicity; Line and WeChat try to throw as many features at people as possible; Viber and Nimbuzz have the option of phone-calls. There’s something for everyone. The African messaging app Mxit is trying another angle – placing an emphasis on feature phone users, ...

When the ecommerce boom first hit, retailers scrambled to develop an online presence. Whole departments were created to manage this separate branch of commerce and create an identity and back end that was both distinct and similar to their brick-and-mortar experience.At the time, it made sense that the ecommerce business and the brick-and-mortar business should be run in separate silos. After all, something that seemed so new required a different approach from traditional retail — or at least that was ...

He may be best known as the man who effectively forced Steve Jobs out of Apple, but John Sculley reckons he still has a role to play in the tech space. More specifically, he wants to go after the Indian smartphone market.According to BGR, the former Apple CEO is getting ready to launch a new smartphone brand in India alongside former Micromax smartphone head Ajay Sharma.The venture, which is reportedly being bankrolled by Singapore-based Inflexionpoint (a company that ...

Last year Facebook started rolling out an updated News Feed to some of its users across the globe only to find that they hated it. The update was awkward and featured a bold, cluttered design where users' profile pictures and photos were meant to be its main focus. Well, the blue social giant has now decided to go back to square one and to revert to a more humble and consistent design.With the new design, all images are ...

Vine's has a big problem with sexually explicit content pretty much since day one. A few days after launch, it found it necessary to introduce a 17+ age rating and now it's officially banning x-rated content.In an official blog post, announcing changes to its terms and conditions, the Twitter-owned video-sharing app makes note of a small number of a "very small percentage of videos that are not a good fit for our community".For most of its users, it ...

Now that Mt. Gox, once the largest cryptocurrency exchange, has collapsed, skeptics have seen fit to throw punches at the Bitcoin currency -- but is it really two sides of the same coin?Japanese-based company Mt. Gox allowed users to convert Bitcoin to dollars, and dollars to Bitcoins. Withdrawals were first halted on 7 February when the company cited a security flaw found in the cryptocurrency. The company then went offline entirely soon after. Come 28 February, the company reported bankruptcy ...

Retailers and brands are standing on the verge of a veritable mobile payment revolution as mainstream interest and unprecedented ease-of-use drive adoption among consumers. Barriers to entry for retailers wishing to add mobile payment apps to their point-of-sale systems have also been lowered to the point that they are almost non-existent thanks to innovative new technology.While I agree with much of what a recent article on this site stated in terms of constraints associated with retailers wishing to enable mobile ...