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Tag: WhatsApp
Telegram lands on Windows Phone; WhatsApp still missing
Telegram wants to capitalize on WhatsApp’s absence!
Iran summons ‘Zionist’ Mark Zuckerberg over WhatsApp, Instagram privacy concerns
Mark Zuckerberg receives ‘come hither’ from Iranian Court!
No sign of WhatsApp for Windows Phone yet
Nearly two weeks now since WhatsApp for Windows Phone disappeared from Windows Phone Store and still there are no signs of the app.
WhatsApp to support voice calling soon?
WhatsApp might soon be adding voice calling functionality to its smartphone application a new leak suggests. According to a tip received by Windows Phone Central, volunteers who translate the Hindi language in…
WhatsApp’s single day high and low: 64bn messages processed followed by service outage
WhatsApp’s service is like a wave cycle with crests equaling claims of 64 billion messages processed in a single day and trough equaling service outage in the same day itself. “new daily…
WhatsApp voice calling feature spotted in leaked screenshots
WhatsApp has promised voice calling feature through its app sometime in 2014, but new screenshots indicate that folks over at the messaging company have already incorporated the feature and are probably at…
Jan Koum pens strongly-worded post over WhatsApp privacy concerns
Jan Koum, WhatsApp CEO, has penned a strongly-worded post over on WhatsApp’s blog to set “the record straight” about data and privacy post Facebook’s acquisition. Koum notes that he and his team…
India may investigate Facebook-WhatsApp deal
Facebook’s recent WhatsApp acquisition is on Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) radar and the government agency is likely to investigate the deal considering the number of Indians using both the services. Like…
Privacy groups want FTC to investigate Facebook-WhatsApp deal
Privacy groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), have approached the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to hold the Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp,…
Telegram grows huge post Facebook-WhatsApp buyout deal
It seems like Telegram is benefiting from WhatsApp’s buyout as Millions of users have reportedly switched to Telegram after Facebook made its move for the world’s largest messaging app. Telegram revealed that…
Are WhatsApp users defecting to Telegram, Threema, other messaging apps?
Acquisitions are a common thing in the technology world, but there are few that really raise brows and there are even fewer of those which attract regular user attention. One such acquisition…
Soon to be Facebook owned messaging service, WhatsApp goes down for hours
WhatsApp, the messaging app for which Facebook is shelling out a whopping $19 billion, went down for hours just days after the acquisition. WhatsApp acknowledged the outage through a tweet, which was…
WhatsApp alternative Threema tops German App Store charts
Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition may have had a negative impact on the latter at least in Germany as within 24 hours of the acquisition announcement, Threema – a Swiss instant messaging app and…
WhatsApp for Android beta increases privacy; lets you hide your ‘last seen’ status
Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp caused a lot of ripples in the technology world and raised almost all brows across the business and corporate segment with some regulators even claiming that the acquisition…