New study shows strong adoption of Instant Messaging on a worldwide basis

For Immediate Release
Contact: Todd Yamasaki
The Radicati Group, Inc.
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Palo Alto, CA – December 17, 2012 – The latest study by The Radicati Group, Inc., “Instant Messaging Market, 2012-2016” offers an in-depth analysis of the Instant Messaging market. Instant Messaging (IM) solutions provide real-time communication between two or more users on a network. These solutions are increasingly blurring the line between IM and Unified Communications platforms by adding more robust voice and video chat capabilities, as well as greater mobile device functionality and social networking integration.

The study categorizes the market into four segments: Public IM Networks, Enterprise IM, IM Management and Security, and Mobile IM. The study also provides detailed user installed base and revenue market share by vendor, four-year forecasts, breakouts by region and business size, and an in-depth analysis of business use of Public IM.

This study provides an analysis of leading market players: Actiance, Apple, Bloomberg, Cisco, Facebook,, Global Relay, Good Technology, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Skype, Symantec, Tencent, Yahoo!, and others.

According to the study, there are over 3.1 billion Instant Messaging accounts worldwide in 2012, growing to over 3.8 billion by 2016.

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