HDmessaging

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/

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/

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/

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/