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Topic: WhatsApp

Ladakh Police summon people from Srinagar who received anti-Modi audio clip on WhatsApp

Clip featured Ladakh councillor & Srinagar Congressman berating PM Modi & the Army. Congress asks why those receiving WhatsApp forwards are being called in.

Stigma of fake news is locking WhatsApp out of India’s lucrative digital payments market

While Facebook Inc. deserves scrutiny for being a platform for hate speech and fake news, cashless transfers is one area where it can be a force for good.

Twitter, Facebook profited a lot from India’s hate agenda. Time to pull the plug with a law

French parliament now has a law mandating social media and tech firms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google remove hateful content within 24 hours of being flagged.

CCI ‘looking into’ antitrust complaint against WhatsApp payments service, says report 

Report of a new complaint against WhatsApp payments service comes on the back of concerns about the app with regard to India’s data-localisation norms. 

Zoom, Google Meet out of reach, it’s WhatsApp or no classes for poor students in Delhi

Students who attend govt & low-budget private schools struggle with online classes, while teachers say can't use data-heavy video apps for lack of resources from schools.

The American Karen is the Indian Suresh, the WhatsApp Uncle who thinks he knows best

Social media and memes have never been about nuance. Given the pandemic and the lockdown the world is struggling with, they have become something to cling to.

How a WhatsApp ‘Hi’ can transform India’s $1 trillion digital payments market

WhatsApp gives the Jio-Facebook deal a big edge in India’s fast-growing cashless payments market which is estimated to be worth $1 trillion by 2023.

WhatsApp doubles limit on group calls as world is using the platform ‘more than ever before’

WhatsApp said people globally have been spending over 15 billion minutes every day on both voice and video calls in the past several weeks.

Days after Facebook-Reliance deal, JioMart begins field testing in Mumbai

JioMart, an e-commerce venture of Reliance Retail, intends to deploy kirana stores as delivery points for groceries during lockdown.

Family WhatsApp groups in Covid times are more about maida, not Modi

Earlier, political views were shared on family WhatsApp groups, but during the Covid-19 crisis, people are sharing household tips.

On Camera

The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.