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Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by RothmasPop: 10:41pm On Nov 26, 2014
Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle WhatsApp With The Launch Of Mara Messenger

Africa’s youngest billionaire and Founder of The Mara Group, Ashish Thakkar, is set to challenge the dominance of WhatsApp in Africa, with the launch of a new messaging App made for Africans across the globe.

The Ugandan businessman, who spoke at the launch of the new Mara Messenger, in Dubai, on Saturday, said that the new app has been custom-made to meet the needs of Africans and will enable them connect with contacts around the world.

“The launch of Mara Messenger marks the dawn of a new era in Africa. For the first time, we will have a truly home-grown messaging platform that is tailored to the individual cultures of the continent,” Forbes quoted Thakkar as saying in an interview.

Thakkar has his sights on WhatsApp, WeChat and Viber, messaging apps he said Mara Messenger will be looking to compete with.

Although there are no specific data for the number of users of the top messaging apps in Africa, The Statistics Portal provided data on the the global user base of WhatsApp and WeChat.

According to the online data source, WeChat had 438 million users in the second quarter of 2014, while WhatsApp had more than 600 million active users as of August 2014, to remain world’s most popular mobile messenger app. These figures are however not frightening to Thakkar, who assured that a couple of newfangled features that the messaging App will offer will earn it a competitive advantage.

Thakkar, who also founded Mara Foundation and Mara Mentor, expressed plan to offer Mara Messenger in multiple languages, across multiple devices, which will make it accessible to everyone across Africa and the world.
“It’s always been my dream to see African innovations going global and Mara Online is one such case in point which further demonstrates that we as Africa can be innovative, can dare to go global, and succeed!” he said.

Mara messenger is now available for free on Android, Blackberry and iOS. It requests for the user’s full name, phone number and birthday, after which it sends a verification code to register users. Once registered, users can edit gender, add a profile picture and a status message. The app include features that will allow users to use instant messaging, share locations, doodle on images and broadcast information to groups.
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Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by okonja(m): 11:25pm On Nov 26, 2014
Nice development....Mr. Seun, when are you gonna launch your own app too?..It's really needed now.

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Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by RothmasPop: 11:27pm On Nov 26, 2014
Is Seun Osewa launching any new stuff Soon?
Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by claycares: 5:59am On Nov 27, 2014
RothmasPop:
Is Seun Osewa launching any new stuff Soon?
Seuh isn't monetizing Nairaland, he has enough money.

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Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by psyqs(m): 8:37am On Nov 27, 2014
claycares:
Seuh isn't monetizing Nairaland, he has enough money.

Is there anytin lyk enuf money?
Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by processrxtn: 8:42am On Nov 27, 2014
Nice development..Lets see how it goes.I smell FP
Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by eightsin(m): 9:05am On Nov 27, 2014
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Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by OCTAVO: 10:20am On Nov 27, 2014
Cool...
Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by tyconcepts(f): 10:26am On Nov 27, 2014
Cool
Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by harmbhrosz(m): 11:09am On Nov 27, 2014
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Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by RothmasPop: 2:52pm On Nov 27, 2014
I think Seun isn't just over Zealous and over ambitious!
Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by coolted(m): 3:00pm On Nov 27, 2014
love it. if it can incorporate whatsapp, Viber and wechat features it will go to heaven
Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by RothmasPop: 3:11pm On Nov 27, 2014
loool Thats hilarious
Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by diki1(m): 3:51pm On Nov 27, 2014
Good development

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Re: Africa’s Youngest Billionaire Ashish Thakkar To Battle Whatsapp With The..... by RothmasPop: 3:56pm On Nov 27, 2014
Its nice and indigenous!

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