In February 2014, WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for a staggering $19 billion. This messaging and voice app is extremely popular in Europe, but it’s barely reached the shores of America (with only an 8% user penetration). However, WhatsApp was becoming just big enough to threaten Facebook’s plans to launch their own voice-messaging app –… read more
2012 was the year it really tipped for instant messaging (IM). There were 3.5 billion SMS users vs. 586 million users of messaging apps but messages sent via third party applications, such as Tango, Viber and WeChat, equalled and finally… read more
Launch hackathon this past weekend was one of the most intense hackathons we’ve ever attended, and we had a blast! After three full days of hacking, 21 talented teams presented their Sinch hacks to evangelists Jordan and Christian. While we… read more
Sinch and Pubnub are hosting a mobile and IoT mashup hackathon on April 18, 2015. The goal is to bring together talented hackers with different backgrounds to build mobile interfaces for IoT apps. Work solo or with a team to… read more
Are you looking to attend a hackathon with 800+ of the best developers and designers in the Bay Area? The LAUNCH hackathon at Fort Mason, offers a $100,000 investment prize to the team that can build the best hack in… read more
With every download of the Sinch SDK, we have included a number of sample apps to give you examples of how our communication features can be integrated into your applications. These include: An app to app and app to phone… read more
Itay Rosenfeld recently wrote a good article in TechCrunch about WebRTC and what he thinks needs to happen to make WebRTC really take off in 2015. On the whole, I agree with Itay and he makes some good points. There… read more
GDC is the world’s largest professional game developer conference, with over 25,000 attendees in 2014. To help attendees enjoy their stay in San Francisco, Sinch and Pubnub are hosting a pitch night happy hour! Do you have a game that… read more
With 4.5 billion SNS enabled devices and the growing popularity of SMS amongst developers, we get asked all the time – what’s the difference between a SMS long code vs short code, and when should I be using each? There… read more
PHP developer Rob Holmes recently asked us on Twitter: @SinchDev Trying to estimate our mobile bandwidth usage using Sinch, any examples or docs to help? #dontknowwheretostart — Rob Holmes (@robholmes) February 19, 2015 When using calling functionality with Sinch, it’s… read more