WhatsApp Updates

[Navjot Singh]

WhatsApp has won regulatory approval from The National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI) to double the number of users it can offer its payments service in India to. This comes after the Facebook-owned (well, Meta-owned) company requested that it should not have a cap on the number of users that it can work with.

A source told Reuters that WhatsApp has almost reached its user base of 20 million for payment services. This regulatory approval should give WhatsApp a lot more room to work with and grow into, although it’s not clear when the new cap will come into effect.

WhatsApp wins approval to expand WhatsApp Pay to 40 million users in India

WhatsApp has won approval to expand its Pay service to 40 million users in India. WhatsApp Pay is built on the Universal Payments System.

www.xda-developers.com

 

[Sushubh]

WhatsApp allows blocked buisnesses to keep sending advertisements on messages, and the Stop function does not work : india

i have not personally seen this but i only have whatsapp installed occasionally when i am dealing with a business that would not communicate through email. i have received unsolicited mails from businesses in the past and i have blocked them and i don't think they were still able to send messages to me.

 

[Jonas]

WhatsApp will hide your ‘last seen’ status from strangers by default

This option was set to “Everyone” previously.

www.theverge.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

WhatsApp will soon add indicators to remind users that they have end-to-end encryption

 

[Sushubh]

don't they already show it at the start of the chat?

 

[Navjot Singh]

Those were in individual chats. These indicators will appear for calls, status messages and probably again on chats at the bottom. lol

 

[socrates]

WhatsApp takes action on accounts engaging in automated, bulk messaging to avoid misuse of platform ahead of Assembly elections

WhatsApp takes action on accounts engaging in automated, bulk messaging to avoid misuse of platform ahead of Assembly elections

www.freepressjournal.in

What a joke. I know people here who are getting messages from AAP. Didn't know they were present in Mumbai. And there's no election due here.

 

[Sushubh]

Billionaire Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Secretly Funded A ‘Cyber Warfare’ Startup That Hacked WhatsApp

As Israeli spyware dealer NSO Group is facing renewed scrutiny over the abuse of its WhatsApp hacking tools, an American startup could also reportedly bypass the messaging app's security. That startup was secretly backed by the millions of billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.

www.forbes.com

 

[Sushubh]

We’re Making Voice Messages Even Better - WhatsApp Blog

 

[Navjot Singh]

Why is Xenforo parsing the Chinese language version of the site?