The big news in the social messaging space this week was supposed to be Facebook's release of Slingshot, its latest attempt to take on Snapchat. Then something unexpected happened: Yo.
Hours after Facebook released Slingshot on Tuesday after**on, the Financial Times published an article about a new app called Yo That simply Lets users send the word "Yo" or "YoYo" to their contacts — which has received $1 million in funding from angel investors. That was e**ugh to trigger dozens of baffled articles about the app, and apparently, plenty of downloads Read more...