The acquisition of WhatsApp and Viber, plus the IPO rumors of Line and WeChat have made the messaging app landscape an interesting space to watch. The South African Messaging App Mxit today announced ...

Like how the Indian cricket team won the 2011 World Cup with South African cricketer Gary Kirsten as their coach, Mxit is poised to win the messaging app game with Gary as their brand ambassador. Gary ...

The new version of Mxit is here. Okay, it isn’t really a surprise, given that we were able to give you preview of it late last week. What is interesting is that the mobile social network seems to be ...

Continuing our last instalment in which we pitted BBM, Line, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat against each other in a duel to the death, let’s instigate competition between the “best of the rest” instant ...

MXit, the very cheap, very popular mobile instant messaging (MIM) application (that is actually a lot more), is coming of age. To clear the way for the rest of the discussion, I am aware of the ...

Mxit's new app is the first paving stone on the road to a new Mxit, as it seeks to deepen the smartphone experience and push into other emerging markets, with the aim of becoming bigger than Facebook.

The UI of Mxit provides nostalgia for many former users in SA. South Africa’s communications minister said today that this week’s massive social media outage of Facebook Inc. apps including WhatsApp, ...