- Business
WhatsApp bans over 75L bad accounts in India in Oct
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a record over 75 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of October, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. Between October 1-31, the company…
- Technology
WhatsApp Channels crosses 500 mn monthly active users
New Delhi: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced that WhatsApp Channels has surpassed 500 million monthly active users. Channels is a new way to get updates from people, organizations,…
- Technology
WhatsApp working on secret code feature for locked chats on Android
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new secret code feature for locked chats on Android to some beta testers. According to WABetaInfo, a new settings section might be available…
- Business
WhatsApp now lets you hide your location from other parties on call
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has added a new ‘Protect IP Address in Calls’ option that helps hide your location from other parties on the call. The new option hides your IP address…
- Technology
WhatsApp AI tool shows kids with guns when prompted with ‘Palestine’
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp’s artificial intelligence (AI) feature that allows users produce stickers based on their search displays a picture of a gun or a boy with a gun when prompted with…
- Business
New WhatsApp spy mod attacks Telegram users over 340K times in Oct: Report
New Delhi: Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious “WhatsApp spy mod”, which has attacked messaging platform Telegram users more than 340,000 times in October alone, a new report said on Friday.…
- Technology
X takes on WhatsApp, rolls out audio and video calls
New Delhi: In a bid to take on Meta-owned WhatsApp, Elon Musk-owned X Corp has started to roll out support for audio and video calls. Several X (formerly Twitter) users received a…
- Technology
WhatsApp Business tests new ‘quick action bar’ feature on Android
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new “quick action bar” feature on its Business app for Android, which will let users “quickly perform different actions”. According to WABetaInfo, a new…
- Technology
WhatsApp’s new feature lets you reply to status updates using ‘avatars’
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new feature that will allow users to reply to status updates using avatars on iOS and Android. With this feature, the company aims…
- Technology
WhatsApp rolling out ‘protect IP address in calls’ option on Android, iOS
San Francisco; Meta-owned WhatsApp is rolling out a new option on Android and iOS to make it harder for hackers to infer users’ location by protecting their IP address in calls. With…
- India
Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal gets death threat via Whatsapp
Nashik: Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal allegedly received a death threat on Friday through a Whatsapp message when he was in his home in Nashik, a police official said. The message, in Marathi,…
- India
Karnataka: Man shares pro-Palestine slogans as Whatsapp status
A 20-year-old man was let off with a warning after he shared a pro-Palestine slogan as his WhatsApp status in Hospet, Karnataka on Thursday, October 12. Siasat.com spoke to an official from…
- Technology
WhatsApp working on ‘secret code’ creation feature for locked chats on Android
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a secret code creation feature, which will allow users to choose a custom password for their protected chat folder. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is…
- India
WhatsApp bans record over 74 lakh bad accounts in India in August
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a record over 74 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of August, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. Between August 1-31, the company…
- Technology
WhatsApp plans to replace green checkmark with blue one for verified channels
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly planning to replace the green verification badge with a blue checkmark for verified channels on Android. According to WABetaInfo, the change will also apply to verified…
