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Brisbane startup Divvito wants to help separated co-parents better communicate
Divvito is aiming to make co-parenting communication easier by, as Wendy explained, “bringing the benefits of email to instant messaging”.
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Social media app Sweep connects users for chats within geo-fenced venues
Sweep works through ‘Geochats’, chat rooms which are fenced in to a specific location, such as a bar or a festival, so that only people at the particular venue or event can take part.
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Cairns app DoTalk enables multi-lingual messaging through instant translation
The DoTalk platform allows users to message each other via text or speech, with the each user’s communications translated into the other’s language of choice instantly.
News & Analysis
Facebook opens Instant Article feature to all publishers and launches chatbot messenger
Facebook today released a new chatbot messenger platform at its Developer Conference and opened up its Instant Article feature to all publishers, looking to meet industry demands and improve user engagement.
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Startups keep launching anonymous messaging platforms, but do consumers care about privacy?
We’ve always known that privacy on the internet is a murky concept, but with iiNet ordered to hand over the information of customers who downloaded Dallas Buyers Club and the Federal Government passing legislation on data retention, the concept of privacy and anonymity online has recently taken deep root in the Australian psyche.
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Messaging app Yap Chat hopes to succeed in crowded market by focusing on visual content
From WhatsApp to Viber, Snapchat to the humble Facebook chat, messaging apps are a dime a dozen. With the market so crowded, each is quickly adding new features to distinguish themselves from the others. Australian app Yap Chat aims to compete by taking words out of the picture altogether.
News & Analysis
It’s a simple idea, but Pip is certainly a contender to dominate the ‘messaging’ market.
There is a lot of activity happening in the ‘messaging’ space at the moment. It is likely to do with societies love of instant, real-time gratification. A lot of the emerging players are ‘me-too’ solutions that all look the same, all work the same and are all competing to be the next big thing.
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Yik Yak may have just raised $US62 million, but behind the scenes there is some ‘founder’ drama.
The app Yik Yak has been labelled ‘controversial’ by many, a lot of people were surprised when it raised two earlier rounds this year totalling to US$11.2 million. Today, announced less than ten hours ago, the app has added a further US$62 million to that injection via another round of funding led by Sequoia Capital.
