My former supervisor and I used to rely on instant messaging as a critical application to get our jobs done. As Web site managers, we could run through the site code together in one window and in ...

It has been several years since instant messaging worked its way from teens' rooms to boardrooms. What started as an easy and hip way for youngsters to communicate with their peers has turned into an ...

Consider this scenario: You have your whole staff assembled for a planning meeting. People have their laptops and Blackberries to take notes and respond to urgent e-mails. Two employees in the back of ...

Before the days of iMessage, WhatsApp, and RCS texting, instant messaging (IM'ing) ruled the roost - here are six iconic clients that defined the era.

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The instant messaging app that rose to prominence three years ago, Signal Messenger, is now offering users a chance to use its platform to create, share, or launch video calls from the platform. For ...

Headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, VNG is one of Vietnam's leading game publishers and also runs a digital wallet and the country's most popular messaging platform ...

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