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Although WhatsApp is described as en encrypted messaging service, it’s not as secure as you might think.

Misinformation via social media played a troubling role in boosting far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro to into the Brazilian presidency. Bolsonaro, …

WhatsApp has been partnering with dozens of third-party companies to resell WhatsApp for Business APIs for some months now.

‘Mentor’ Harshit has a wee bit of Byju Raveendran in him. As a teenager growing up in Kanpur, Harshit Shukla …

Last week union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced the government’s intent to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences …

FactorDaily Year in Review: 2018 Following the money in tech and life Team FactorDaily | 19 December 2018 The coming …

WhatsApp is the only messaging app among those with over a billion monthly active users, which hasn’t started actual monetisation …

Circa 2010, China: The aftermath of Urumqi riots in 2009 resulted in a ban and blockage of 1.3 million websites …

They raised concerns over WhatsApp sharing data with Facebook, which many see it as a threat to data privacy in the country.

Whatsapp has incorporated an entity called WhatsApp Application Services Ltd in Telangana and appointed former SIDBI executive Rakesh Rewari as a director.

Businesses in India such as BigBasket, Swiggy and HouseJoy are quietly signing up to sell products on Facebook Messenger.

This will be the first time that WhatsApp is introducing the payments feature anywhere in the world.

Facebook owned WhatsApp is in talks with many companies to roll out WhatsApp for Business in India.

On Wednesday, ride-hailing company Uber is set to make a public announcement of a payment feature that it has built …

The BJP Connect app has additional features that are enterprise grade, say a bit like Asana, a popular collaboration tool.

India’s fastest growing telecom network Reliance Jio and the world’s largest instant messaging service WhatsApp are in early talks to …

To ensure attendance at the weekly Gram Samadhan Diwas, government officers in Hardoi have been asked to take a photograph and share it on WhatsApp.

Knowledge-sharing WhatsApp groups across rural Indian are helping cattle rearers manage their cattle’s health and improve cultivation.

Ahead of the Karnataka elections in 2018, the BJP is doubling down on WhatsApp. The party is setting up nearly 5000 WhatsApp groups to promote itself.

Watch the stories of Naveen from Himachal Pradesh and Gajanan from Vidarbha — both have benefitted from the communities forged by WhatsApp groups.