iMessage

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has released iOS 16.4, featuring several new updates — here's everything you need to know before updating your iPhone.  What Happened: The iOS 16.4 update is now available for download on iPhones, following a beta period that began on Feb. 16. This includes a new emoji,...

Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ:MSFT) soon to launch Phone Link App will enable Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) users to access iMessage and notifications on Windows, just like Android users do.  What Happened: Microsoft’s Phone Link App will allow Apple users to connect their iPhones to a PC and...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Carl Federighi said bringing iMessages to phones running the Android operating system made by rival Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) would have come in the way of innovation. What Happened: “What it would...

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has criticized Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iMessage for being less "private and secure" than WhatsApp. What Happened: On his official Instagram page, Zuckerberg took a shot at Apple's iMessage for being less...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is holding back evolved Text messaging by not incorporating the “industry standard” on iMessage, a Google executive said Monday. What Happened: Hiroshi Lockheimer, the senior vice president at the Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary for...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has emerged as a potent competitor to the social networking giant. What Happened: Zuckerberg used the opening statement at the company’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call to lambast the Cupertino,...

The Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2016 began on June 13 in San Francisco and Bernstein analyst A.M. (Toni) Sacconaghi offered his key takeaways of the event. Sacconaghi said Apple's announcements were in line with investor and blog expectations. The Cupertino,...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) detailed its expansion plan for Apple Pay at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). According to Josh Beck of Pacific Crest Securities, Apple's new plan for its mobile payment system resulted in it completing the "commerce trifecta" of boasting in-store, in-app and in...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is trying to make a big change to its business model to make up for a saturating iPhone market. According to Global Equities Research’s Trip Chowdhry, that transition involves creating a unique ecosystem for each of the company’s devices. “Apple is...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s Google is planning to bring out a new messaging application in the coming year. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the tech giant is hoping to bring customers a more advanced messaging service that uses the company's artificial...

When Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) CFO, David Ebersman said in a recent earnings call that the company “did see a decrease in daily users specifically among younger teens,” the admission was widely viewed as an indication that while teenagers were still on Facebook, they were not using it as much as...

Investors might want to reconsider their plans for Twitter. Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, is not satisfied with the information that Twitter has provided before its initial public offering. "I think the S-1 filing has done a very poor job,"...