Tango is a third-party,
cross platform
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messaging
application software
Application may refer to:
Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
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for
smartphones developed by TangoME, Inc.
in 2009. The app is free and began as one of the first providers of video calls, texting, photo sharing, and games on a 3G network.
As of 2018, Tango has more than 400 million registered users.
It was rated by
PCMag
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as "the simplest mobile chat application out there, with a good range of support."
In 2017, Tango entered the live-streaming space, and has become a B2C platform for Live Video Broadcasts, combining high-quality video streaming, a live messaging chat and a digital economy.
History
Tango, based in
Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, it has a population of 82,376.
Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the ...
, was founded in September 2009 by Uri Raz and Eric Setton.
Raz currently serves as its CEO.
The California-based company has offices in Saint Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Kyiv, and Minsk, with a total of over 250 employees and 33 patents.
The founders raised venture capital from a range of investors such as
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm focused on investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies. In January 2019, DFJ Venture, the early-stage team, spun out and formed Threshold Ventures. DFJ Growth ...
and
Len Blavatnik
Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik, russian: Леонид Валентинович Блаватник, Leonid Valentinovich Blavatnik (born June 14, 1957) is a Ukraine-born American-British business magnate and philanthropist. As of March 202 ...
.
In July 2013 the
Syrian Electronic Army
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA; ar, الجيش السوري الإلكتروني) is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Using spamming, website defac ...
hacked the Tango chat app and stole 1.5 terabytes of user data.
A financing round in March 2014 brought in $280 million from
Alibaba, Yahoo co-founder
Jerry Yang and other investors.
As of March 2014, Tango employed just over 160 employees in offices in Beijing, China and Austin, Texas, in addition to its Mountain View headquarters. As of 2016, Tango closed its Beijing office.
On August 24, 2015, Tango stopped being compatible with PCs and smartphones which use the Windows Phone operating system.
In February 2017, Tango added integration with GIF platform
Gfycat
Gfycat ( ) is a user-generated short video hosting company founded by Richard Rabbat, Dan McEleney, and Jeff Harris.
History
Founded in 2013 in Edmonton, Canada, Gfycat was among the first web services to offer video encoding of GIFs. It was i ...
, allowing users to search and send GIFs.
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