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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

LinkedIn most likely to be imitated in phishing attempts in Q1: Report

According to cybersecurity firm Check Point, the report highlighted the brands that hackers most often imitated in the first three months of this year

WhatsApp adding option to hide 'Last Seen' status from specific contacts

With the feature now in beta testing on both Android and iOS, it likely will not be long until it is officially available on WhatsApp, the report said

WhatsApp to bring emojis in chats, allow 32 people in group voice call

WhatsApp will first allow users to react with six key emoji but will add more going forward, so that people can quickly share their opinion without flooding chats with new messages.

Mumbai Metro One launches 'e-ticket on WhatsApp' facility for passengers

Mumbai Metro One Private Limited (MMOPL) which operates metro service on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar route in the city on Thursday launched an 'e-ticket on WhatsApp' facility.

WhatsApp to bet big on payments in India after NPCI nod for 100 mn users

Monthly volume of transactions has stagnated on the platform in the past six months, but value of transactions has doubled

WhatsApp to allow 32 people in group voice call, larger file sharing

At present, only eight people can be added in a group voice call using the mobile app, and the size of each file to be exchanged among the users should not exceed 1 GB

WhatsApp building new feature to organise groups for businesses, school

Admins will be able to remove errant or problematic messages from everyone's chats

Meta-owned WhatsApp likely to roll out new drawing tool features

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is likely to roll out a new drawing tool features for its users.

WhatsApp bans over 1.4 mn bad accounts in India in Feb

WhatsApp on Friday said that it banned 1,426,000 bad accounts in India in the month of February in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021