WhatsApp is one of the renowned social-media platforms that is used by smartphone users. The instant messaging platform rolls out new features to intrigue its users and hoists the app experience. One of the useful features of the Facebook-owned platform is the ‘change number feature’. There are many cases where … Read More
After a big drama against the new privacy policy introduced by WhatsApp, it looks like Indian users will lose more of their privacy. The Indian government has recently mandated social media apps to find out the ‘originator’ of wrongful messages that lead to crimes such as rape and danger to … Read More
In a bid to take on Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Telegram is rolling out a slew of new features. The first major feature gained by Telegram is auto delete messages which was added to WhatsApp as disappearing messages feature a couple of months ago. Telegram used to offer this feature on Secret … Read More
The ‘Messenger Room’ feature was rolled out for WhatsApp just a few months back. It allows WhatsApp users to carry out a group video call with up to 50 people, which the normal video calling feature of WhatsApp doesn’t. ‘Messenger Rooms’ is a feature from Facebook, which is integrated within … Read More
WhatsApp has confirmed that it will go ahead with the new privacy policy and has set a new deadline of May 15. WhatsApp users will be required to accept the policy before the deadline; WhatsApp says users can still accept the new policy terms post the deadline, but here comes … Read More
The National Informatics Centre (IMC) has launched the ‘Sandes’ app, an instant messaging platform dubbed to be the alternative for WhatsApp. At present, the state and centre officials are using ‘Government Instant Messaging System’ (GIMS) for communicating in a safe environment. But now they can upgrade to the ‘Sandes’ app … Read More
WhatsApp Cart feature was launched back in 2020 to elevate the shopping experience of users. The ‘Add to Cart’ option allows users to pick desired items from different catalogues posted by different merchants and shop in the Facebook-owned platform. WhatsApp also offers users the same shopping experience as e-commerce platforms … Read More
Telecom operators have asked for the regulation of the over-the-top (OTT) communication apps. Citing the recent WhatsApp privacy policy changes as an example, the telcos have argued that OTT apps don’t have any obligation to protect its customers’ privacy. This means these apps need to be regulated just the way … Read More
WhatsApp Payments feature was launched in Indian region back in November 2020. Since then, many Indian WhatsApp users have been using the feature to send money to friends and family members via chats in the app. In case you are not aware, WhatsApp Payments is a UPI-based platform where user … Read More
The Supreme Court (SC) of India has questioned WhatsApp and Facebook on introducing new stringent privacy policy for the Indian users. The apex court has asked the social media giants about why Indian users haven’t been provided with the same leniency on accepting new privacy policies as the European users. … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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