Asia's mobile messaging apps mean big business (and bucks) for developers

Image courtesy Kakao Talk on Google Play

Mobile messaging apps have become all the rage across Asia, as Korea’s Kakao Talk is the latest app to pass 100 million users. As services like Twitter and Facebook fail to keep up in many countries (or are blocked entirely in some regions), users turn to these mobile messaging apps as a way for fast, easy (and usually free) communication with friends and loved ones.

According to The Next Web, Kakao Talk’s users send over 5.2

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