We’ve known this was coming for quite some time now, but Google’s cross-platform messaging app - codenamed ‘Babel’ - has finally arrived and it’s officially called ‘Hangouts’. Replacing Google Talk and the “old” Google+ Hangouts, the new Hangouts becomes Google’s unified messaging service for all of their products. Hangouts is currently available as a native [...]

Kik Messenger, the popular cross-platform messaging application, raised an impressive $19.5 million in their second round of funding completed this week. The round, lead by Foundation Capital, marks significant growth for the start-up, which previously raised an $8 million funding round and just last week announced 50 million users. The funding is significant for Kik, [...]

While our friends to the south can enjoy the enjoy the full Facebook Home experience today, Facebook is giving everyone a little taste of their new Android goodies. Facebook Messenger for Android has been updated today, enabling the super-cool Chat Heads messaging feature for all Android users. Chat Heads should be enabled by default when [...]