2018 has been a big year for WhatsApp as the instant messaging giant has introduced plenty of new updates, features and is still on the roll. Also this year, we got to see WhatsApp founder, Jan Koum leave the company after which the Facebook-owned company rolled out more and more … Read More
Facebook-owned WhatsApp today announced that it had selected 20 research teams worldwide – including experts from India and those of Indian origin — who will work towards how misinformation spreads and what additional steps the mobile messaging platform could take to curb fake news. Shakuntala Banaji from London School of Economics … Read More
The world’s most popular freeware instant messaging app, WhatsApp, confirmed its prior announcement that, as of Monday, any users who have not backed up their stored data and chats on Google Drive would lose their chat histories. WhatsApp, which is owned by tech giant Facebook, had reached an agreement with … Read More
It has been a busy year for WhatsApp, in both good and bad ways. The Facebook-owned instant messaging application has been in the news for all the wrong reasons like the fake news menace. To combat that, WhatsApp has reduced the number of people you can forward a message to … Read More
When it came to trying the latest features on WhatsApp, the Android Beta users and even Windows Beta users had the edge over iOS users. WhatsApp Beta for Android has been known to be a thriving community which has early access to every new feature being rolled out. However, that … Read More
Lately, WhatsApp’s every update has been targeted towards tackling the problem of fake news. Whether it is the new forwarded tag or the limit of 5 recipients for the forwarded message, WhatsApp has finally taken the menace of fake news seriously and is working to roll out new features which … Read More
Continuing with its firm stance on traceability, the government stated that it has not sought decryption of WhatsApp messages but instead wants the location and identity of those misusing the platform to spread the fake news that provokes violence. IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who met WhatsApp Vice President Chris … Read More
WhatsApp is now rolling out a new feature to its Android Beta users which is named as ‘Private Reply.’ While the name of the feature sounds like it’s some massive one, well, actually it’s not. It’s a basic feature which WhatsApp users have been asking for ages. Basically, Private Reply … Read More
Clearing the air on Facebook’s monetisation efforts towards WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service’s Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company is going to put advertisements in its “Status” feature. “We are going to be putting ads in ‘Status’. That is going to be primary monetisation mode for the … Read More
WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company is focussed on values like security and privacy to ensure that its product remains a utility that helps users communicate in everyday life. The Facebook-owned company, which has been asked by the Indian government to put in place a mechanism … Read More
Samsung Mobile tops the list of most popular brands in India, according to a report released on Tuesday. The latest entrant in the Indian telecom scenario, Reliance Jio, which hit the existing telecom firms with unprecedented low tariffs, has been ranked eighth in the list of top 10 brands in … Read More
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Monday announced that it would work with WhatsApp to educate and train small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on how WhatsApp Business app can help them grow their businesses. Facebook-owned WhatsApp and the CII will work to enhance business communication for Indian SMEs through … Read More
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