![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You could argue that these latest additions of video messaging and chat extensions, however, are examples of how Viber is, in this case at least, trying to keep up. The new edition comes as Viber - which has over 800 million registered users and around 260 million active users - continues to look for ways to compete with and differentiate itself from a sea of other messaging services that include not just Messenger and Kik, but WhatsApp (also part of the Facebook stable), WeChat, Line and many more. Viber’s COO Michael Shmilov said that the app updates for iOS and Android should be live any day now as they make they way through the approval phase. The feature is coming out in a new version of the app that will also include Chat Extensions - Viber’s equivalent of chat bots or Slack’s Slash Commands - which will let people call in information from external services - starting first with six apps, including Giphy, Wikipedia, and TheMovieDB - into their ongoing chats with contacts as well as a wider refresh of all of the app’s iconography. On the heels of Kik and Facebook’s Messenger adding in new video features yesterday, one of their old rivals Viber is announcing a new video tool of its own: users can now use Viber to send each other videos as messages with the push of a button - the messaging app video equivalent of push-to-talk. ![]()
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