messaging topics by TJ Thinakaran
Upland announced its Q4 results. While it beat its Q4 guidance, its 2024 guidance gives no clarity about the company’s future directions. The company will…
Twilio, Sinch, and LinkMobility together brought in a total $7.6 billion in revenue for 2023, and there are three learnings from their earnings reports. Efficiency…
Watch, as I geek out like a Trekkie at Comic-Con. I’ve been attending the Wireless History Foundation’s (WHF) Hall of Fame dinner for several years…
New in 2024, Caitin Long and Zach Kunkel are cohosting a new series, The State of Business Messaging. I had the chance to share my…
With Verizon’s announcement last week, the US support of RCS is now at 100%. This, combined with Apple’s Thanksgiving surprise, means that RCS will work…
Industry conferences, like the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s (PTC) conference, are hotbeds of collaboration. They often have a festival-like atmosphere, with multiple stages serving as focal…
In the latest round of Q3 earnings in the CPaaS sector showed a steady march towards profitability and responsible growth. Growth and the CPaaS Market…
In this morning's email, my thoughts on the recently concluded Somos, Inc. summit, including:1. clarifying my first-ever on-the-record future predictions,2. KYC is good friction (ask your car…
Every brand needs to have an RCS strategy, even in the US, where interoperability issues and sub-25% device penetration have CMOs questioning whether the investments…
Fred Hillebrand, a Wireless Hall of Fame inductee and SMS inventor, is the editor of a scholarly work on the history of SMS. This compact…
A spam-free network exists solely in marketing copy. All networks, regardless of size, experience spam. Every network operator recognizes this and relies on feedback loops…
Recently, I had the opportunity to organize the content for the Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) leadership conference in Miami, an event that brought together some…