Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users faced a temporary outage earlier today. Facebook and its other social media platforms temporarily went down late on Monday in the United States, Canada and various other parts of the world, including in India. Facebook blamed a networking issue for the temporary outages. People took … Read More
Since the last few weeks, we haven’t seen anything new developments on WhatsApp which is quite surprising. However, the Facebook-owned company has pushed a new update to its iOS users which bumps the version number to 2.18.90. It brings various new features including the latest ones suspicious link detection, notification … Read More
WhatsApp today roped in New Delhi-based non-profit Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) to train its over 200 million users in India on dangers posed by fake news. This step comes right after the Facebook-owned company was ordered by Central Government to take steps to stop the spread of disinformation on the … Read More
WhatsApp and Centre today received a notice from Supreme Court regarding payments service on the instant messaging platform. In the notice, the Supreme Court ordered to hold WhatsApp from proceeding with its payments service in the country, unless it fully complies with RBI’s provisions. The first and most important direction … Read More
WhatsApp and Google have signed an agreement which will now allow WhatsApp users to store their chat backups on Google Drive storage for free without it being counted towards their paid quota. Notably, before this, users were only granted 15GB of free storage on Google Drive which sometimes used to … Read More
WhatsApp has reportedly denied the Indian Government’s demand to track the origin of spam messages on the platform. WhatsApp said that the solution to track spam messages would undermine end-to-end encryption and affect privacy protection for users. However, WhatsApp has agreed to educate people in differentiating the spam messages. Emphasising … Read More
Of late, WhatsApp is facing several questions from the Indian government regarding fake messages and mob-lynching on the platform. In a stern message to Whatsapp, the government today said the messaging platform would need to set up a local entity and find a tech solution to trace the origin of … Read More
WhatsApp is going through a rough patch in India, thanks to all the mob-lynching news surrounding the platform. It’s now said that WhatsApp CEO Chris Daniels is visiting India this week and is likely to meet IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, as the company attempts to address concerns around fake … Read More
Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has established an agreement with Google which will now allow WhatsApp users to store their chat and media backup on Google Drive without it occupying storage on their Google Drive. A letter sent out by Google revealed that from now on, users who back up their … Read More
WhatsApp is offering ‘learning material‘ to the government in order to create awareness around the issue of fake news on the instant messaging platform. The government today announced that it started an advocacy drive which will be based on the material offered by WhatsApp. The advocacy drive will bring awareness … Read More
WhatsApp has lately been surrounded by questions from around the globe from techies and general users alike about the app’s privacy and security. After Jan Koum, the founder left the company following the clash with Facebook over the issue of data security; Facebook has been making back to back updates … Read More
The Apex industry body, COAI has issued its views against blocking of mobile apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, etc. The COAI cautioned DoT that the move would not only impinge on freedom of speech and expression of users, but also hit routine day-to-day communications, commercial activity, and business interests. … Read More
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