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WhatsApp for iOS to allow users hide 'last seen' and 'online' status

The messaging app will allow you to hide your 'Last seen status' from anyone outside your contact list

Students in Bihar provoked through Whatsapp groups during Agnipath protest

After the massive violence in Bettiah district of Bihar during the Agnipath protest, the police investigation reveals that the students of the district were provoked through a Whatsapp group

Sebi imposes Rs 30 lakh fine on RIL and two of its compliance officers

Sebi said Reliance did not disclose the deal even after newspaper reports in March 2020 published price-sensitive details about the Facebook investment that led to a spike in RIL shares

35 WhatsApp groups banned by govt for spreading fake news about 'Agnipath'

The move came amid violent protests against the scheme in different parts of the country since it was announced a few days ago

WhatsApp launches SMBSaathi Utsav to help small biz adopt digital mediums

SMBSaathi Utsav has kicked off with a pilot in Jaipur's Johri Bazaar and Bapu Bazaar where over 500 small businesses are being trained on various aspects of running business online

You may soon be allowed to edit your sent messages on WhatsApp, says report

After announcing that some major features are under development such as group polls and WhatsApp Premium, WhatsApp is now working on the ability to edit text messages for a future update

Reels & short videos are biggest lever of Meta's growth: Ajit Mohan

The second lever is business messaging, said Mohan

WhatsApp India, GoI join hands to leverage Chatbot for non-Covid use-cases

These collaborations happen despite several run ins between the two on regulatory issues

WhatsApp bans 1.6 mn Indian accounts in April with compliance to IT rules

Meta-owned WhatsApp on Wednesday said that it banned over 16.6 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of April in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021.

Trolling and safety fears plague young women online, study finds

The report found that women aged 18-34 were more likely than any other group to report a negative overall impact on mental health

Citizens can now access Digilocker services on MyGov Helpdesk via WhatsApp

A flagship initiative under Digital India programme, DigiLocker aims to strengthen digital empowerment' of people by providing access to authentic digital documents, in their digital document wallet

Meta Cloud hosting services now available for businesses on WhatsApp

Now, a business can easily access the service, build directly on top of WhatsApp to customise their experience and speed up their response time to customers by using the secure WhatsApp Cloud API

WhatsApp will be open to all businesses through Cloud API: Mark Zuckerberg

This will be made possible by offering free, secure cloud hosting services provided by Meta

WhatsApp working on feature that will allow users to exit groups silently

In a bid to make the messaging platform more user friendly, Meta-owned WhatsApp is likely working on a new feature that will allow users to silently exit groups.

Madras HC judge uses Whatsapp to hear petitioner, lawyer in separate places

For the first time in the annals of the Madras High Court, a judge has conducted a case through 'WhatsApp', and on a Sunday. Justice G R Swaminathan took up the case while being stationed in Nagercoil, where he had gone to attend a marriage function on Sunday, following a submission of P R Srinivasan, the hereditary trustee of Shri Abheeshta Varadaraja Swamy temple, that his village will face the 'divine wrath' if the proposed 'Rath' (Car) festival was not held on Monday. "This fervent prayer of the writ petitioner made me hold an emergency sitting from Nagercoil and conduct the case through Whatsapp," the judge said in the opening sentence of his order. It was a triangular session, with the judge hearing the case from Nagercoil, petitioner's counsel V Raghavachari at one place and Advocate-General R Shanmugasundaram, at another place, in the city. The issue pertained to a temple in Dharmapuri district. Holding that the Inspector attached to the Hindu Religious and Charitable ...

Meta took down over 27 million pieces of bad content in India in March

Meta actioned a huge 14.9 million spam content, 2.5 million violent and graphic content and 2.1 million content related to adult nudity and sexual activity, among others

WhatsApp bans over 1.8 million bad accounts in India in March

The company said that it also received 597 grievance reports in the same month from the country, and the accounts "actioned" were 74

WhatsApp working on multi-device linking feature for phones and tablets

This is a significant advance from the past when multi-devices could only be run via a desktop client or web browser

WhatsApp confirms giving cashback for making digital payments in India

The company is giving away Rs 11 cashback up to three times by sending money to three different contacts via unified payments interface (UPI) on WhatsApp

In India push, WhatsApp plans cashback for peer transfers, merchant payment

The latest move comes days after WhatsApp won regulatory approval to more than double its payments offering to 100 million users in India