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Hike messenger, India’s first homegrown and fastest growing messaging platform have announced the launch of Hike 3.5 for Windows Phone 8.1. The update will bring Windows Phone 8.1 users a host of Hike’s most popular and much wanted features.

Commenting on this new release, Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO and Founder, Hike Messenger, said

Our users on Windows Phones absolutely love hike. Today, Windows is our 2nd largest platform by users. We know they have been eagerly waiting for this update, which is the biggest we’ve ever released for Windows, and we’re excited to finally get it in their hands.

What’s new in Hike 3.5 for Windows Phone 8.1

Hike Now Looks Better than Ever Before – Hike 3.5 has a brand new user interface that makes navigating simpler than ever before. It has 10 brand new exciting chat themes that will allow you to set the tone of every conversation you have!

Share Files and Attachments that are up to 100 MB – Sharing will never be the same with this new update as one can send practically all formats and any number of files through hike — PDF, ZIP, APK, MP3, Audio, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. The update also allows one to send or receive files and videos that are up to 100 MB in size!

Take Better Control of Your Social Circles – You can now form large groups of up to 500 members on hike — friends, colleagues, alumni etc. Not only this, you can even manage these groups better by having multiple administrators in each group and also the ability to mute groups and messages from your contacts so you are not disturbed if you don’t want to.

Hike’s Growth Story

  • Dec 2012 – Global launch
  • Feb 2013 – Messaging traffic grows 10X week on week
  • April 2013 – Hit the first 5M user milestone in just 4 months of its launch | Raised $7M from BSB
  • Feb 2014 – Hit the 15M user mark
  • April 2014 – Received $14M fresh funding from BSB
  • June 2014 – Crossed 20M user mark, launched first TVC
  • July 2014 – Hit #1 rank on App stores
  • August 2014 – Crossed 35M user mark, receives $65M fresh funding led by Tiger Global & BSB
  • November 2014 – Launches regional stickers on hike
  • January 2015 – Launched free Hike Calls
  • February 2015 – Launched Cricket Scores on hike
  • Aug 2015: Hike announces 20 billion messages per month and launched Hike News
  • Sep 2015: Launched Group Calling with upto 100 people

Additional information

You can download the app at – http://get.hike.in For more information, please visit the Hike Blog

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IndiaMART, India’s leading online marketplace for businesses, announced the launch of its Mobile Application for Windows operating system. The Mobile App would assist the Windows users in finding the right business partners, even while on the move. Buyers could easily fulfil their requirements by searching for relevant suppliers, comparing prices, sending enquiries, posting requirements, etc., any-time and anywhere, by using a smart and intuitive, yet simple interface. The Mobile App is available for download on the Windows Store and has been designed for Windows 08 and above.

According to Dinesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, IndiaMART

The industry has been evolving each day, to drive the customer experience a notch higher every time. As per statistics, India is the second biggest user of Windows phone in the world, with a user base of 7.5%. Having registered over 5 lakh App downloads on the Android & iOS platforms, we strongly felt that the launch of the Windows App was important and inevitable. We are extremely confident that our new initiative would open up an array of business opportunities for Windows users.

 

Mobile has proved to be an important medium for our business, with about 40% of the traffic on IndiaMART coming through mobile. Also, we have found that the average time being spent on IndiaMART Mobile App is more than the average time spent on our mobile site, clearly pointing towards a growing importance and usage of Apps. We are delighted to see a good response for our Windows App so far, with over 20,000 installations already witnessed within a few days of its launch. We expect this to grow further, and help more and more buyers and sellers grow their businesses.

The App also provides various benefits to the sellers, especially to the small and medium enterprises, by facilitating on-the-go business for them. IndiaMART Windows App supports exclusive features for individual seller accounts, as well as detailed product listing view as per categories and sub-categories, among many interesting aspects.

With this new App on Windows, IndiaMART is the only online marketplace, with its mobile application available on all major platforms, including Android, iOS, and Blackberry.

Do give IndiaMart Windows App a spin & share your feedback/comments.