Tag: Messenger
Leverice is a team messenger app that’s taking aim at information overload
Meet Leverice: A team messenger and collaboration platform that’s aiming to compete with b2b giants like Slack by tackling an issue that continues to plague real-time messaging — namely, ‘always-on’ information overload. This means these tools can feel like they’re eating into productivity as much as aiding it. Or else…
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Facebook releases an experimental messaging app for Apple Watch
Facebook has released an experimental messaging app for Apple Watch called Kit (or Keep in Touch). It appears to work in a similar way to iMessage on the device, as you can share emoji, voice messages, your location, doodles and dictated messages ove… Source
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WhatsApp introduces new limit on message forwards to fight spread of misinformation
WhatsApp is imposing additional restriction on how frequently a message can be shared on its platform in its latest effort to curtail the spread of misinformation. The Facebook -owned instant messaging service said today that any message that has been forwarded five or more times will now face a new…
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Moderna could make experimental COVID-19 vaccine available to healthcare workers by fall
There are some hard limits to the vaccine development process that mean we are not going to see any preventative immune therapies to fight the new coronavirus for at least a year to 18 months. But Moderna, which is behind the first potential vaccine to enter human clinical trials in…
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Facebook Messenger provides governments, agencies with free developer tools to combat Covid-19
Big tech has been making a huge effort to mobilize its power to help people work better together to battle the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — whether it’s creating search and information portals or making sure the most authoritative voices are surfacing above the noise, or gathering compute power to supercharge…
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Startup founders are building companies on WhatsApp
Creating new firms and services easily and cheaply opens up the world Lisa Enckell 7 hours Lisa Enckell Contributor Lisa Enckell is a partner at Antler, an early-stage venture capital firm and startup generator. In Asia, where I work as a partner at an early-stage VC, startups are regularly rolling…
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