HDmessaging

04/29/2014

IDT Acquires HDmessaging

We are excited to announce that HDmessaging has sold its assets to IDT Messaging, a subsidiary of IDT Corporation. IDT is a global, publicly traded (NYSE: IDT) telecommunications and technology company that, like HDmessaging, is extremely entrepreneurial and relies on innovation to fuel its growth.

IDT intends to continue to support HDmessaging’s OTT messaging products and services, including MagicWords. With our combined resources, new synergies, and an expanded development team, we expect that our pace of innovation will continue to ramp up in the months and years ahead.

http://www.hdmessaging.com/idt-corporation-acquires-hdmessaging/

01/03/2014

"(HDmessaging) sounds like the most promising of the hoard of mobile messaging services"

6 Mobile Messaging VC Investments You Might Have Missed In 2013.

“There’s little doubt that 2013 was the year of mobile messaging. WhatsApp continued its global dominance, surpassing 400m users, Snapchat bagged two significant funding rounds totalling more than USD100m, with a reported USD2bn valuation to boot and BlackBerry finally offered its Messenger app, the...

11/14/2013

HDmessaging rides messaging wave to $3M funding round

Article re-posted from Pandodaily : ?In case you were any doubt about just how threatened all the carriers and traditional messaging providers are feeling by the advance of WhatsApp, Line, WeChat, and the likes, then here?s

06/19/2013

Banners are awful and search just doesn’t translate – and so the advertising world is still searching for the perfect mobile ad unit.... HDmessaging is piggybacking on text within instant messaging apps to deliver contextual information that might actually be useful and relevant.

Banners are awful and search just doesn’t translate – and so the advertising world is still searching for the perfect mobile ad unit. That’s a problem that Rob Lawson, co-founder and COO of HDm...

04/29/2013

In 2012 mobile IP messaging overtook SMS messaging in volume. Informa estimate that nearly 19 billion messages were sent using IP messaging apps each day around the world, versus 17.6 billion SMS messages. More info at http://www.hdmessaging.com/ip-messaging-overtakes-sms-globally/

02/05/2013

The Ravens, Beyoncé, Ray Lewis and Pizza win the text-messaging Superbowl.

The Superbowl was the country’s mobile messaging religion on Sunday – being included in messages 4 times more frequently than Church, 3 times more often than the movies, 18 times more often than shopping and 8 times more often than the weather.

However, the real winner of the Superbowl was Beyoncé – she was mentioned in 5% of all Superbowl related conversations – more than all the players combined.

More at http://www.hdmessaging.com/the-ravens-beyonce-ray-lewis-and-pizza-win-the-text-messaging-superbowl/

12/13/2012

Exciting! Globe Telecom just launched GMESSAGE - the latest mobile operator to launch with HDmessaging. More info on the blog: http://www.hdmessaging.com/blog/globe-telecom-partners-with-hdmessaging-to-launch-gmessage-service/

“We pride ourselves in offering our users innovative mobile services. By working with HDmessaging, we have been able to deliver a next generation messaging service that we will rapidly expand to new platforms and with new features,” said Peter Bithos, Senior Advisor for Consumer Business at Globe Telecom. “Text messaging is what our customers love and use most of all, so it is important that we continue to offer world leading messaging services.”

05/10/2012

Congratulations to our partner T-Mobile, who reached 1 million Bobsled users this week!

http://hdmessaging.com/blog/boom-t-mobile-hits-1-million-bobsled-users/

03/09/2012

Heading to SX? Sign up to party with our friends from Bobsled and Tony Lucca!

Guests must be on the RSVP list and have their SXSW badge. Entrance will be granted based on occupancy.

02/25/2012

Chetan Sharma just released a fabulous report on what he calls Mobile Internet 3.0. We couldn't agree more on his analysis of the need to proactively seek new revenue streams as core services move to IP, and not to succumb to being a dumb pipe for OTT services.

http://hdmessaging.com/blog/dont-sit-back-on-ott/

02/21/2012

IP messaging: Operators lost $13.9bn in SMS revenue in 2011 .

Blog post: http://www.hdmessaging.com/blog/ip-messaging-operators-lost-139bn-in-sms-revenue-in-2011/