Facebook Positioning Itself as “WeChat of the West”

Android app developers in the Asian market have been capitalizing on chat apps for years, combining the benefits of social connectivity, the decline of SMS, and the desire for simplicity to turn their chats apps (WeChat, Line, etc.) into one-stop-shops for everything from paying for services to shopping for clothes. Now San Francisco iPhone app […]

Assist App Developers Invest in Mobile Messaging Interface

“Do you really need an entire app for that?” That’s the question driving Assist, an innovative new app that ditches the traditional native app interface altogether in favor of interacting with users via SMS, Messenger, Slack, and other mobile messaging services familiar to both casual users and San Francisco mobile app developers. Mobile messaging was […]