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WhatsApp in India says partnership with government, society needed to combat...

MUMBAI: Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service has responded to a call from India’s technology ministry to curb the spread of false information on its platform,...

WhatsApp struggles with incendiary messages in India

MUMBAI: A WhatsApp text circulating in some districts of India’s central Madhya Pradesh state helped to inflame a mob of 50-60 villagers into savagely...

Whatsapp to extend ‘delete for everyone’ time limit: reports

Whatsapp will now let users delete messages more than an hour after they have been sent. The app currently allows users to recall messages up...

Turkey launches domestic rival to WhatsApp, raises security concerns

ANKARA: Turkey has launched a domestic messaging app to rival Facebook’s popular WhatsApp Messenger service, raising concerns among government critics that Ankara could use...

Sindh IGP says no way to trace Whatsapp call made by...

ISLAMABAD: Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) AD Khowaja on Wednesday said that he cannot give a definitive date for apprehending wanted SSP Rao...

WhatsApp introduces app for business accounts

SAN FRANCISCO: Messaging application WhatsApp announced that it would begin to allow business accounts for the first time, a step that brings the free service...

New feature in Whatsapp can ‘demote’ group admins

WhatsApp has started allowing users to “dismiss” administrators of group chats. The messenger app has built a new feature, called "Dismiss as Admin”, that lets...

WhatsApp restored after global outage

WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed. “WhatsApp...

WhatsApp will stop working on some smartphones in 2018

WhatsApp will stop working on a selection of smartphones and mobile platforms in 2018, according to The Independent. From January 1, 2018, the messenger service will not...

Whatsapp introduces new restricted group feature

WhatsApp’s new Restricted Groups feature lets you force everyone else in your group to stop chatting if you are the admin of the group. In...

Latest WhatsApp update integrates YouTube

CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp's newest update lets you play YouTube videos on the app. WhatsApp latest update for iOS users will bring two important and much-needed features; a...

Indonesia to urge messaging services to remove obscene content

JAKARTA: Indonesia said on Tuesday it would summon representatives of messaging services and search engines, including Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, to demand they remove...

Whatsapp to get blocked in Afghanistan

KABUL: Afghanistan’s telecoms regulator wrote to internet service providers this week ordering them to block the messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram but it was not...

Whatsapp restored after temporary breakdown

Popular messaging service Whatsapp has been restored after it crashed earlier on Friday in several parts of the world, including Pakistan. Users took to...

Interior ministry directs employees to refrain from using WhatsApp

The Ministry of Interior on Thursday directed its employees to refrain from using instant-messaging service WhatsApp, saying it can “pose serious risk to enterprises...

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to leave company

Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), will leave the messaging service company to start a new foundation, he said...

Advisory alert issued against cyber espionage by Indian spy agencies

By AHMAD AHMADANI The Cabinet Division (CD) has issued an advisory alert against cyber espionage allegedly launched by Indian spy agencies trying to hack smartphones...