messaging topics by TJ Thinakaran
Today, recipient feedback is a blunt instrument. You can either entirely block a number on your device, or submit the offending message to 7726 and…
There are 7 billion textable cell phones deployed on 750 mobile networks. This ubiquity and diffused oversight makes SMS spam impossible to stop and unwieldy…
One of the highlights of my September was the recently concluded Mobile Ecosystem Forum’s MEF Connects USA conference. I helped bring together a lot of…
I knew writing about Twilio's ZipWhip acquisition would take time. I didn't expect it would require over 6,000 words across six posts. Of all the posts,…
Wireless networks are universal, pervasive, and heterogeneous. They are a fertile testbed for interoperability-driven innovation. Text messaging is but one example of how complex event…
In the payments industry, your leverage is your proximity to the payment providers: Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. In the messaging industry, your leverage is…
In 2016—the year it went IPO—Twilio had 36,000 customers paying it $270M to transmit messages. This was an eight-fold increase in revenue and a three-fold…
Twilio paid $800 Million to acquire ZipWhip. At 10x revenue, the valuation was high for the asset. As deals go, it wasn't the biggest in…
US customers sent 2.2 trillion text messages in 2020. In other words, the wireless operators have created a big party—one which application developers, marketers, and software companies…
A startup is a lonely endeavor that never works alone. It works with a dominant player, whether in an app store like a marketplace or…
Once it has won over the geeks and early adopters, new technology needs to win the heart of the everyday user. You do that by…
When it comes to bandwidth, 5G is like having your cake and eating it too, in this case the cake is double chocolate, no fat*.…