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JioMart goes live across India, offers range of products for home delivery

The app is not yet available on Apple or Google Play Store and has to be downloaded from jiomart.com

Samsung partners Facebook to help retailers use social media for business

The training helps offline retailers establish their business pages and accounts on Facebook and Instagram

WhatsApp video calls for tax adjudication in wake of Covid-19 pandemic

The move is aimed at maintaining social-distancing norms amid the coronavirus pandemic, and WhatsApp has been picked because of its reach and popularity

Covid-19 crisis: Indiabulls sacks over 2,000 employees to control expenses

The attrition is in line with the process we follow every year, says company

Facebook takes on Amazon with online shopping, commerce venture Shops

The Facebook chief executive officer announced a handful of updates Tuesday signaling the company's commitment to online shopping and commerce

SC seeks WhatsApp Pay response to PIL alleging breach of regulations

WhatsApp Pay is the UPI-based payments system of Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp, embedded within the app itself

WHO readies coronavirus app for checking symptoms, possibly contact tracing

Several countries are ramping up contact tracing, or the process of finding, testing and isolating individuals who crossed paths with an infectious individual

Facebook sees signs of stability in ad spending, beats revenue estimates

Shares of the world's biggest social network, which owns WhatsApp and Instagram, jumped 9% in extended trading.

Covid-19: Britannia launches WhatsApp store locator to meet consumer demand

The GPS-based chatbot publishes a list of stores near the consumer's current location, which have been recently serviced by the company

WhatsApp now allows up to 8 people to join a group video call: Details here

WhatsApp emphasised that like written messages, all calls on its platform are protected with end-to-end encryption

Days after deal with Facebook, RIL starts WhatsApp-based online portal

JioMart, an e-commerce venture of Reliance Retail, went live in three neighbourhoods surrounding Mumbai, leveraging a deal that gives it access to WhatsApp's 400 million users in India

70% plunge in viral forwarded messages globally: WhatsApp to govt

Earlier this month, WhatsApp limited the number of times a frequently forwarded message can be sent further to only one chat at a time

How brands are adopting creative ways to communicate amid Covid-19 lockdown

The problem is deep, if one were to look at the consumer responses to a recent study from Kantar to assess how they expected businesses to act during the coronavirus pandemic

Zoom's sudden popularity sets off scramble in rivals

Facebook, Google and other behemoths are training their sights on Silicon Valley's company of the moment

Facebook-Jio deal may see more foreign e-commerce firms flock to India

WhatsApp's integration into Jio's e-com platform holds the key: Experts

Jio Platforms now more valuable than rest of RIL businesses put together

At Wednesday's price, RIL's market capitalisation stood at Rs 8.64 trillion. This means, the other businesses are being valued by the Street at Rs 4.28 trillion

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Jio-Facebook deal would change India's digital economy

Facebook to invest $5.7 bn in RIL's Jio Platforms to pick up 9.99% stake

Jio Platforms, Reliance Retail and WhatsApp also enter into a commercial partnership agreement

Facebook to buy 9.9% in Jio for $5.7 bn in largest tech FDI for minority stake

In a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the two companies are joining hands to help people and businesses in India create new opportunities

WhatsApp likely to increase participants limit for group video, audio calls

The company is yet to reveal how many users will finally be able to join the group call. It will come to know when the new calling feature is rolled out globally