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Tanay Singh Thakur February 10th, 2021 1:21 PM 2 COMMENTS

Indian Users Prefer Multiple Texting Applications for Different Purposes: Report

Gone are the days when one texting app (WhatsApp) ruled and dominated the Indian market. Indian users are picking up and using several texting applications with different purposes in mind and uprooting the market's old trend. According to a report from techARC, users keep multiple texting applications on their smartphones for chatting and sharing stuff. The founder and chief analyst of techARC, Faisal Kawoosa, said that the future of texting... Read More

Chakri K February 8th, 2021 9:03 PM 17 COMMENTS

WhatsApp UPI Transaction Volume Dips in January; PhonePe Extends Lead at the Top

Facebook-owned WhatsApp continues to witness poor response for its payments service in India. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) released UPI data for the month of January 2021. PhonePe continues to lead the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments market in India with an overall transaction volume of 968.72 million and Rs 1,91,973.77 crore transaction value. Google Pay is second on the list, followed by Paytm Payments Bank App, Axis... Read More

Shloke Sarkar February 8th, 2021 9:53 AM 1 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Is Finally Bringing Mute Video Option to Users

Popular messaging service WhatsApp, which has been the primary choice when it comes to messaging in India features a lot of add ons and tools that make it easy to use. Some of these include the ability to hide the status of users, making both audio and video calls, sending documents via the app and more. That being said, for the user who wished to mute a video before sending... Read More

Shloke Sarkar February 3rd, 2021 11:00 AM 1 COMMENTS

Moved to Signal? Here’s How You Can Move Your Groups From WhatsApp

Facebook, and its privacy-related concerns have haunted the company for years, if not all of its lifetime. From users refraining from using its app to the various allegations levied on the company. Tough times have become the norm for the social media giant. To add to all of these problems, the company's instant messaging service, WhatsApp was under a lot of fire for a new privacy policy that shares user... Read More

Bala Yogesh January 28th, 2021 5:55 PM 2 COMMENTS

Facebook Brings Same World-Class Privacy to Messenger, WhatsApp: Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the fourth quarter earnings call on Wednesday said that the company brings the “same world-class privacy features” to WhatsApp and Messenger. Zuckerberg said that the “biggest difference between Messenger and WhatsApp is, obviously, the connection to Facebook and the kind of same identity” that people use on Facebook carries over to Messenger. Crucially, Zuckerberg also said that the company has “a lot of competitors who... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur January 28th, 2021 3:30 PM 1 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Web Security Features Updated for Desktop App

WhatsApp Web is getting new and enhanced security features. Now users will have to authenticate the linking or login of their WhatsApp account on the desktop app through fingerprints or Face ID. This new security feature will keep others from trying to login through your device when you are not there. In terms of privacy, WhatsApp won’t store any of the biometrics data on its servers. The complete authentication process... Read More

Chakri K January 28th, 2021 9:28 AM 1 COMMENTS

Telegram Users on iOS Can Now Import Individual Chats from WhatsApp

Telegram has added the ability to import individual chats from WhatsApp on iOS. The Facebook-owned WhatsApp is all over the place after letting users know about the new privacy policy that was initially set to roll out from February 8. A large chunk of WhatsApp users are migrating to either Telegram or Signal. While Signal is plagued with user handling issues, Telegram is welcoming all the WhatsApp users. In fact,... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur January 22nd, 2021 4:30 PM 6 COMMENTS

Signal Will Get These Features from WhatsApp Soon

Even though users have started shifting from WhatsApp to Signal, the latter doesn’t have all the former's functionalities to compete with it yet. However, Signal is working hard behind the scenes to roll out new features similar to that of WhatsApp as quickly as possible so that the users don’t feel like they have shifted to an alien texting application. Features such as chat wallpaper, status update, animated stickers and... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur January 18th, 2021 4:30 PM 3 COMMENTS

Delhi High Court’s Simple Approach Towards WhatsApp New Policy Case

The Delhi High Court (HC) has a straightforward view on the new policies of WhatsApp. A petition was filed at the HC for issuing notices to both Facebook and WhatsApp. The petition was against the recent changes brought to the terms and conditions of WhatsApp’s usage by Facebook. However, the Delhi HC didn’t issue any notice to the concerned companies. HC said it will carry a detailed hearing on the... Read More

Chakri K January 16th, 2021 11:14 AM 17 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Takes a U-Turn, Delays the Implementation of New Privacy Policy

WhatsApp officially announced that it is delaying the implementation of the new privacy policy by at least three months. In a new blog post, the Facebook-owned company said it would allow the users to review the new policy at their own pace before the new business options come into effect on May 15. WhatsApp earlier mentioned that users will have to accept the privacy policy by February 8 to continue... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur January 14th, 2021 4:35 PM 1 COMMENTS

WhatsApp New Terms Concern Government About User’s Privacy

The hot debate of WhatsApp’s new ‘Terms & Conditions’ has now the brought Indian government into the play as well. The social media giant recently updated its terms for app usage, which has left users with two choices; either to accept the new changes or bid farewell to the app. WhatsApp has given users time till February 8, 2021, to decide about the same. The Indian government is worried about... Read More

Chakri K January 12th, 2021 11:08 AM 6 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Answers Questions Regarding Privacy, Says Private Messages are Protected

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has finally responded to the backlash it is receiving over the last five days. Ever since WhatsApp started pushing users to accept its new privacy policy, the entire world is criticising the popular instant messaging platform. Replying to the concerns it received, WhatsApp said the private messages are still protected on its platform. WhatsApp also cleared that the policy update does not affect the privacy of user messages... Read More