WhatsApp, one of the leading texting and social media applications in the world, is gaining market in the online payments space as well. The Meta owned messaging platform can now add up to 40 million users for its payments service. The development was first reported by PTI, which said the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has allowed WhatsApp to double its user base for online payments service to 40... Read More
At the recently held seventh edition of the Google for India conference, Google announced an array of features for its products. The special thing about these features for its select products is that they will be exclusive to India. We are talking about Google products including Google Assistant, Google Search, and Google Pay. To know more about these features, keep reading ahead. Google Assistant for Cowin vaccine booking Google Assistant... Read More
WhatsApp introduced its UPI payment service in India late last year, which lets users send money to their contacts directly via the messaging platform. Since then, the company appears to be on the quench to add more users to its payments service as it faces a stiff competition against the likes of the other well-established UPI services such as Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm among others. To tackle the strong... Read More
WhatsApp is bringing a new payments feature for Android users. Note that the feature is currently available in the beta version of the application, and it will take some time for it to arrive in the stable version. The new ‘Payments Shortcut’ that WhatsApp is adding is aimed to make paying a contact an even seamless process for the users. As per a WABetaInfo report, WhatsApp will now show a... Read More
In recent times, Unified Payments Interface or UPI has made it very easy for people to get their monetary transactions done in a breeze. This is applicable for both business and personal transactions since via UPI, it can be done instantly and without additional costs. For those of you unaware, UPI is regulated and governed by the NCPI or National Corporation of India, which had recently announced that certain changes... Read More
Indians rely heavily on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to make real-time online cash transactions for almost anything they purchase today. Be it food bills, grocery shopping, clothes, to making payments online for utilities, Indians have started leveraging UPI to complete the transactions. Now, the UPI, along with other payments modes, including cash and cards, has seen a growth in volume in the first three weeks of June in India.... Read More
One of the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators in India, Dish TV, is offering up to 30 days of free service to its users. Users can avail the offer if they are going for long-term plans. There are multiple offers for users going for different long-term validities, including 3 months and above, 6 months and above, and 12 months and above. Note that users don’t have to pay anything extra for... Read More
Google Pay is getting new privacy features in India, which are worth talking about. Google Pay is one of India's leading payments apps that works on Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Starting next week, the Google Pay app will provide users with more controls on how Google Pay activity will be used to personalise features within the app. However, Google says the users' personal information is never sold to anyone and... Read More
The largest telecom operator in India, Reliance Jio, has changed the telecom market by offering multiple benefits to its subscribers. The benefits to cost ratio is one of the key factors which intrigues users to join the largest telco of India and enjoy an array of benefits. Since online payments and bills have become the new norm, Jio allows its postpaid users to pay their bills using various online methods.... Read More
Reliance Jio introduced new recharge offers valid between February 16, 2021, and February 28, 2021. The Mukesh Ambani-owned telecom operator always comes up with new offers for its prepaid customers, but they can be availed only via third-party recharge portals like Paytm, Amazon and so on. We don't usually see official recharge offers from Jio, which is disappointing. For those who perform recharges via other portals, these offers are really... Read More
Vodafone Idea users can now add up to 25 profiles on Vi mobile app. The telco seems to have rolled out a new update and the landing page on the app highlights the feature. This feature will be useful for a family with a lot of Vodafone Idea connections. Basically, this feature allows Vi users to log in using 25 different Vi numbers in a single account. The first mobile... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has revised the offering of its Rs 18 voucher recently. It is one of the most popular short-term vouchers offered by the state-run telco. The Rs 18 voucher is now said to be offering 1GB daily fair usage policy (FUP) data instead of the 1.8GB/day data it used to offer earlier. As per a report from KeralaTelecom, BSNL is also offering SMS benefits with the... Read More
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