Most of us have had the experience of sending a text or email that came across sounding insensitive or angry, even though that wasn’t our intent. Unfortunately, the lack of… Read More
LivePerson, a company whose messaging platform helps businesses communicate with customers, has a message for Seattle: they’re setting up shop in South Lake Union. LivePerson announced Tuesday that it is… Read More
After his first startup, Phil Gordon spent about 10 years as a professional poker player. Four more startups later, it’s clear that the tech veteran is not done gambling on… Read More
ReplyYes has been accepted into the Disney Accelerator’s 2017 class to continue building out its chat commerce platform that allows retailers to sell products to customers via text message. The… Read More
John deVadoss, Peng Huang, and David Hill have known that they wanted to go into business together for years. They met on the .NET team at Microsoft where they developed… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Samir Diwan is the CEO of Seattle startup Polly, which makes a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Hangouts Chat. A version of this post… Read More
When (newly-public) Snapchat first arrived on the scene, its self-destructing messages felt like a game-changer. Finally, a way to send anything you want with the liberating knowledge that it’ll be… Read More
Scott Lipsky has a long history in Seattle as an entrepreneur and investor who has led a number of startups and successful companies. It’s been five years since he launched… Read More
Snap Inc., the company that operates blockbuster messaging app Snapchat, is in the process of filing for an initial public offering, according to The Wall Street Journal. WSJ initially reported Snap’s… Read More
In the crowded world of messaging apps, Google has released Allo, a new player that promises to learn how you like to reply while also enlisting the help of Google Assistant to… Read More
Twitter users will be able to communicate privately with groups of people on the social network under a new feature announced by the company this morning. The Group Direct Messages feature… Read More
Janus Friis already changed the messaging game when he co-founded Skype. Now the entrepreneur are trying to do it again — this time by backing a new app called Wire. Friis, CEO Jonathan… Read More
PayPal President David Marcus has just been hired away by Facebook to head up the social network’s messaging division. The announcement is a huge loss to eBay-owned PayPal, which has gone… Read More
Seattle-based Glympse has partnered with ChatON to enable its users to share their location with a friend through the Samsung-owned messaging platform. The announcement is being made today — or… Read More
Skype today announced a new milestone for its Android app, and with it came a big update. There have now been more than 100 million installs of Skype for Android,… Read More