Meta-owned WhatsApp on Wednesday said it banned over 36 lakh 'bad' accounts in India in the month of December 2022 in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021, which are being amended to put more responsibilities on social media platforms.
February 1, 2023Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is facing a server-side issue, making it impossible to update the privacy setting "who can see when I'm online," globally on iOS.
January 31, 2023Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a new Mac app that uses the Apple Mac Catalyst development environment to make better use of system resources.
January 28, 2023Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new update that will enable WhatsApp users to search for businesses -- by category or name -- directly in their WhatsApp UI.
November 19, 2022Amid the heightened insecurity and mass layoffs, two top Meta India officials -- Abhijit Bose, Head of India, WhatsApp, and Rajiv Aggarwal, Director of Public Policy, Meta India -- have resigned, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
November 15, 2022According to GSM Arena, the latest WhatsApp beta for Android - version 2.22.24.18 brings companion mode which allows users to link a secondary phone to their primary account. WhatsApp lets users link up to four Android phones to their primary account and they get to access all the regular WhatsApp features and message encryption.
November 15, 2022As Meta doubles down on its monetisation drive across its family of apps, its Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that JioMart on WhatsApp in India is going to be a big opportunity for the paid messaging market.
October 27, 2022The Delhi High Court earlier had refused to stay CCI investigation into WhatsApp's privacy policy and Meta.
September 29, 2022As per reports a WhatsApp chat has come to the fore in the investigation. According to police sources, in this chat, Ankita is telling her friend that the owner of the resort is pressuring her to provide 'extra service' to the guests.
September 25, 2022India’s first and only WhatsApp-enabled food-ordering platform allows passengers to order a variety of cuisine like Veg Thali, Veg/ Chicken Biryani With Raita, Standard/Jain Special Thali etc. from selected restaurants using their PNR number.
August 30, 2022The bench of Justice Satish Chander Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad in its detail judgement said that "the Court finds merit in the submission of the ASGs appeared for CCI that one of the key issues with the 2021 Policy is its propensity to share the data.
August 26, 2022According to Mashable, the site also debuted Communities, a brand-new way to connect with individuals who share your interests and raised the maximum number of participants in group talks from 100 to 512.
August 7, 2022The platform had restricted over 19 lakh accounts with bad records in the nation in May.
August 2, 2022Anonymous chat app YikYak was shut down in 2017 after becoming littered with hateful speech ~ but has since returned.
July 30, 2022The Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav said the modus operandi used by imposters was sending personal WhatsApp messages to innocent people mostly government officials, asking for financial favors in form of Amazon gift cards.
July 7, 2022The accused used to get the cheated money in different bank accounts through UPI and then convert it into crypto currency by purchasing USDT.
July 3, 2022The Cyber Crime cell registered the FIR after a complaint was lodged by Ajit Roy, Secretary to Sawant, the police told IANS.
June 16, 2022