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October 23rd, 2021 8:50 PM 7 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Payments Lets You Send Stickers With Your Money

The popular instant messaging platform, WhatsApp introduced the Payments feature in India recently after a long wait. Now, the company intends to push its users towards using the app’s capability to send and receive payments by introducing new features for it. In one such move, WhatsApp Payments has received a range of stickers that will make it more exciting for users who make payments via the messaging app. WhatsApp Payments... Read More

October 23rd, 2021 4:17 PM 26 COMMENTS

Mobile Recharges Via PhonePe Will be More Expensive Now

There are a ton of third-party applications and online wallets that allow users to recharge with prepaid/postpaid plans as per their convenience. One of the most popular applications among them in India is PhonePe. Now onwards, users who are recharging their SIMs using the PhonePe application will have to pay more. PhonePe will be taking a small processing fee from the customers on every transaction they make through the application.... Read More

October 21st, 2021 5:04 PM 0 COMMENTS

Twitter India Rolls Out Cricket-Related Features

As it is cricket season, Twitter has introduced a new feature for cricket enthusiasts in India. The microblogging platform has come up with a live cricket scorecard and extended the Communities feature to the country with the first community focused on cricket fans called Cricket Twitter - India. These updates have been rolled out amidst the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 tournament that debuted a few days back and... Read More

October 20th, 2021 10:08 AM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Might Not be Called Facebook Anymore

Facebook, one of the biggest social media companies in the world might soon undergo a rebranding activity. According to a report from The Verge, the company might not be called Facebook anymore. There’s no saying on what the new name might be. Facebook denied commenting on the same saying that it doesn’t pay attention to the “rumours or speculation”. It won’t be a surprising thing to see Facebook’s name being... Read More

October 12th, 2021 6:50 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp To Let Users Control Chat Backup Size

Reportedly, WhatsApp is working on a new feature, which lets users control and manage the size of their chat backups. It is touted to be one of the biggest problems faced by users and the solution was inflexible. Eventually, many users of the instant messaging platform had to forego their precious memories as they had to delete messages, photos and much more. Notably, this is the second feature related to... Read More

October 11th, 2021 5:36 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Trying to Improve on Voice Message Feature

One of the largest social media applications, WhatsApp, is now trying to improve its voice message feature by adding support for pausing the recording. Currently, if a user is sending a voice note to a contact, he/she needs to record it all in one go. There’s no option for pausing the recording. But according to a WABetaInfo, the Facebook-owned texting application is working on bringing support for pausing voice note... Read More

October 6th, 2021 6:20 PM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Gets Videos Tab With IGTV and Feed Videos

Earlier this week, Facebook faced a sudden global outage wherein Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for a few hours. In the wake of this Suddenly, Facebook came up with an announcement regarding a significant change on Instagram. Going by the same, Instagram will merge the portrait style video format IGTV and videos on the feed into Instagram Videos. There will be a new Video Tab that will be added... Read More

October 6th, 2021 9:42 AM 3 COMMENTS

Telegram Added 70 Million Users When WhatsApp Went Down

What became a disaster for Facebook when its applications, including WhatsApp and Instagram, went down, it became a boon for Telegram. While Telegram is not as big as WhatsApp, there’s no other app that can give competition to WhatsApp the way Telegram does. One of the many reasons why WhatsApp wins is because of clean experience and early mover advantage. But Telegram has already achieved the milestone of a billion... Read More

October 5th, 2021 10:34 AM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp and Its Importance Cannot Be Ignored

WhatsApp is arguably the biggest texting platform in the world. With multiple billion downloads, the Facebook-owned application has become an integral part of many people’s lives. Whether it is taking to a sick relative, wishing happy birthdays, or communicating for officer work, WhatsApp allows people to do everything. Many people leverage the application daily to communicate with most of the people they know. This makes WhatsApp one of the most... Read More

October 4th, 2021 4:09 PM 1 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Testing New Feature in iOS Beta Version

WhatsApp, the instant messaging service owned by Facebook is working on a new feature. This feature is allegedly called the Global Voice Message Player. This new feature is claimed to let users listen to voice messages even after leaving a chat window. This new feature was reported to be on cards by the WhatsApp tracker site WABetaInfo, which tracks all new and upcoming features of the platform. For now, users... Read More

October 3rd, 2021 10:13 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Users Expected to Spend More on OTT, Sony-Zee to Cash on Market Growth

Indian users are expected to spend more on over-the-top (OTT) platforms in the next few years, say analysts. Prabhudas Lilladher, a research based financial services organization, in a note said it expects users in India to make “higher spends on digital side” as there is a “shift in viewing habits.” The firm in its note on Thursday highlighted that the viewing patterns have shifted from linear television to digital media... Read More

October 2nd, 2021 11:10 AM 1 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Aggressively Pushing New Features?

Facebook-owned social media-giant, WhatsApp is aggressively pushing new features to its application for retaining user attention. While it is the king of social media, it still needs to stay ahead of the curve when compared to Signal and Telegram. Multiple new features have become a part of the platform in the last few months. Some of the features came directly from other Facebook-owned applications such as Messenger and Instagram. WhatsApp... Read More

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