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New Delhi: WhatsApp seemed to be partially restored in India and Android and iOS users were able to send and receive messages on the popular instant communication app that went down for almost two hours on Tuesday. Users of the Meta-owned instant messaging and voice call platform had reported that they were unable to send […]
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Both personal chats and group chats have been affected by the outage.
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Meta-owned WhatsApp went down on Tuesday across the globe, including several parts of the country, as multiple users reported they cannot access the messaging service or get a single tick even for delivered messages.
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Hyderabad: For many, reaching a company through its call centre is a frustrating as well as time consuming activity. But that will change in days to come. Sensing an opportunity to solve this problem, Hyderabad-based Ozonetel has recently launched a full-featured contact centre-as-a-service (CCaaS) platform on WhatsApp. This allows the companies to cut their dependence […]
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New Delhi: Amid the festive season in the country, the government cyber agency warned that free gift offers can be a trick by Chinese websites to steal users’ confidential information. In an advisory, CERT-In, under the IT Ministry, cautioned users against adwares targeting prominent brands and tricking customers in fraudulent phishing and scams. “Fake messages […]
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The messaging turf battle between Meta, formerly Facebook, and Apple is taking new dimensions, with Meta now launching an anti-iMessage ad campaign to promote its messaging platform, WhatsApp. The popularity of personal messaging facilities on different social media platforms, be it Messenger on Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram’s direct messaging, Signal, Telegram, Apple’s iMessage or even the […]
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Zuckerberg published a photo of the new advertisement playing at Penn Station in New York in an Instagram post.
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Spamming with too many `good morning’ messages, forwarding unverified information and overusing the WhatsApp broadcast list are among the reasons for an account getting blocked.
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47 people, mainly youngsters, from Regula village of Kodakandla mandal in the district collected Rs.1.18 lakh through a WhatsApp group and handed over the amount to the bereaved family of Balla Raju
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Delhi High Court order, which dismissed the appeals filed by WhatsApp and Facebook (now Meta) challenging a single judge bench order refusing to stay the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) probe into alleged abuse of dominant position practices by WhatsApp in connection with its 2021 privacy […]
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New Delhi: India is among the countries with highest number of Android trojan detections and a cloned, third-party unofficial version of WhatsApp is leading in spying on people’s chats in the country, a new report has warned. Behind a large portion of Android spyware detection in the past four months was ‘GB WhatsApp’ — a […]
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According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp Premium is only an optional plan and may be available for some beta testers in certain countries.
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Behind a large portion of Android spyware detection in the past four months was 'GB WhatsApp' -- a popular but cloned third-party version of WhatsApp.
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Under the scam, the fraudster uses open-source resources from the internet to find pictures of high-profile personalities and opens a WhatsApp account using a fictitious SIM card or virtual phone number.
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Jangaon: Two youngsters, including a 19-year-old intermediate student, were arrested, after the 19-year-old raped a 16-year-old girl and shared a video of the same on social media with the help of his friends in Jangaon. Four of the prime suspects, friends, all said to be minors, were absconding, with the police making efforts to apprehend […]
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Hyderabad: In order to promote the green and sustainable way of commuting, Hyderabad Metro Rail has rolled-out an end-to-end digital payment enabled metro ticket booking through WhatsApp e-ticketing facility. The L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Limited (L&TMRHL) in a statement said that this is for the first time that WhatsApp ticketing has been launched by a […]
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In a message sent to its users in the country, the platform announced the discount in subscription fees, as it focuses on aggressively growing in a country where WhatsApp has nearly 500 million users.
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New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Saturday said it banned over 23 lakh accounts in India in the month of August in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. The messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users (according to third-party data) in the country, received 598 complaint reports in the month of August in India, […]
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A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice K M Joseph asked the parties to complete pleadings in the matter by December 15.
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Even before its introduction in Parliament, the draft Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022, replacing the colonial-era Act, has raised concerns over intrusive regulatory regime, data security and privacy. For a country that hopes to create a vibrant digital economy, formulating a law that would require every app developer on the internet to obtain a government licence […]
