Telcos to lose billions as SMS gives way to social messaging

Increasing use of IP-based social messaging services by consumers on their smartphones cost telecom operators $13.9 billion last year alone, according to one analyst firm, and it expects the losses to mount further as the popularity of messaging apps continues to grow.

Social networking and messaging firm Imo.im has an interesting new take on social networking, and it’s raised money to get more people on board!

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketThe social media market continues on its merry way with booming revenues and the number of users to top one billion this year as the market matures and social websites become more innovative in their ad product offerings to marketers.

Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Home ITAVG's MultiMi aims to provide a single interface to multiple social media services, much as multi-protocol instant messaging applications such as Adium can connect simultaneously to multiple IM services.

Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: TechnologyIn the next twelve months many organisations will make the wrong choices about social media because of “CIO inertia” and in misconceptions about social media and consumerisation.

The next version of Microsoft’s instant messaging app, part of ‘Wave 4’ of the Windows Live services, evolves into “a companion for your social networks” but unfriends XP.

Communications are very important nowadays.

But sometimes there are so many ways to communicate that people lose tracks: what, where and how.

Whatsapp has emerged as the leading, cross-platform messaging app among smartphone users, reaching the 10 billion messages per day mark a couple of weeks ago.

WhatsApp, Viber, Yuilop, Facebook Messenger/Poke, Snapchat, and many, many others — the list of apps in the mobile social messaging space seems endless. But Finland’s Jongla thinks there’s room for one more.