Articles tagged "WhatsApp"

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is finally throwing its hat in the online payment system, starting first with India, its biggest market in the world. The company is said to be working on a system based on India’s UPI or Unified Payments Interface to...

Facebook's quest to make all of its mobile apps more like Snapchat hasn't ended. The latest victim is WhatsApp, though the Snapchatifying isn't as prevalent here as it is in Instagram or Facebook Messenger, for example. The good news is that you can...

Emojis are a big part of any messaging app nowadays, and Facebook-owned WhatsApp knows this. That's why it's now working on making the emoji experience better on Android, regardless of which version of the OS your phone happens to be...

The Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband or the Federation of German Consumer Organisations claims WhatsApp’s changed privacy terms in August are illegal. Back in the summer the messaging platform passed a statement that it starts to transfer some...

A twitter account that’s dedicated to reporting on new WhatsApp beta builds has tweeted of a new feature that its allegedly uncovered. @WABetaInfo tweeted a couple of screenshots of a newly spotted feature in version 2.17.3.28 for iOS and version...

If you have an Android smartphone that's lucky enough to be among the 0.7% that currently run Nougat, and if you also use WhatsApp often, then surely you have noticed how messed up the messenger's notifications have been on the latest version of the...

You have to assume that by far the most requested feature for WhatsApp has to have been video calling. The Facebook-owned service wasn't the first to add voice calls to its app, and it definitely isn't the first to do video calls. But now, after...

Today WhatsApp has started turning on two-step verification in its beta releases for both Android and Windows Phone. On Android, this feature is live in version 2.16.341 and above (maybe even earlier). On the Windows side, you'll see it if you're...

Facebook has really taken the fact that it couldn’t acquire Snapchat to heart. So much so that it has constantly tried to emulate the service, first by releasing its own version (remember Slingshot?) and later adopting its most popular feature -...

A few months ago, WhatsApp nixed video calling from the Beta version of the App on Android. Some users that had the correct version of the WhatsApp beta were able to make calls, until the feature was disabled. It appeared that, although some were...

WhatsApp's recent decision to share user data with parent company Facebook is quickly turning into a full blown privacy scandal. If you are not in the know about the move, it basically comes down to a change in terms and conditions that will enable...

WhatsApp has announced that it will be updating its terms and privacy policy today, the first time in four years and since it was acquired by Facebook. As part of the new terms, the company will be sharing more user data with Facebook. According...

After many tests and limited beta releases, WhatsApp finally launched voice calling for all Android users in March of 2015, followed by the same feature making it to iPhones about one month later. And it turns out that this has been quite a...

It wasn't too long ago that WhatsApp added voice call functionality to its app. Naturally, the company now wants to take it one step further, and introduce video calling. The latest beta for Android shows an option to video call whenever...

After launching WhatsApp on web, the company may be working on native apps for Windows and Mac. Twitter account WABetaInfo found screenshots of WhatsApp translation website where you can see references to download links for Windows and Mac...

Several years ago before the adoption of smartphones exploded like the plague, carriers in the US used to make major bucks from text messaging plans and minutes while they gave data away in unlimited bundles for Blackberries to sip on, back when the...

WhatsApp is now rolling out an update for the Android and iOS versions of the app that adds document sharing. More specifically, PDF sharing. You can now press the attachment sharing button to see the option to attach documents. On...

Not too long ago, WhatsApp decided to drop the $1 a year subscription fee. And since WhatsApp has promised to never show ads for the sake of their own users, it only leaves us wondering how the messaging platform is planning to make...

Ever since Facebook acquired WhatsApp back in 2014, not much has changed to the popular messaging platform beside the addition of voice calls between users. It and Facebook have stayed separate entities up until now. New leaks reveal that...

This year, the biggest new feature that landed in the popular WhatsApp messenger was support for making voice calls. Now that this has been implemented, it seems like Facebook is looking forward to the next thing it can bake into the app. And this...