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The European Union is likely to begin an anti-trust investigation into Microsoft in the wake of a complaint made by messaging app Slack two years ago, accusing the Redmond firm of bundling applications in order to increase market share.

The Kik Messenger social media platform, used by some 300 million people, is due to close down on 19 October, 2019.

Medibank has launched a WeChat channel in a move which it says is designed to better connect with the growing Australian-Chinese population.

Russia's efforts to block the messaging app Telegram, after the country's authorities imposed a ban on the app, are proving more difficult than first thought, due to the way such apps work.

OTT messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, will see adoption grow from 2.3 billion unique users in 2016 to 4.2 billion by 2021, a new global report predicts.

The messaging app Signal, which has a good record on the privacy front, has added encrypted video calls as a new feature in its latest beta release.