WhatsApp Payments To Be Available For All Users By April 2018: Sources
WhatsApp, India's most loved and most downloaded messaging app with more than 20 crore users, has integrated UPI based payments service into the app for simplifying digital payments. The feature has been introduced to only some users as of now, but according to sources, it will be available to all … …
WhatsApp will not share user data with Facebook until it complies with GDPR, ICO closes …
An interesting development in Europe over how WhatsApp and Facebook will work together, which is also a victory of sorts for data protection and privacy advocates in the region. Today, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) announced that it has closed an investigation into whether … Read More
WhatsApp signs public commitment not to share personal data with Facebook
WhatsApp has signed public commitment not to share personal data with Facebook until data protection concerns are addressed, said Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information Commissioner. Denham's office has completed an investigation, which began in August 2016, into whether WhatsApp could … Read More
WhatsApp sharing user data with Facebook would be illegal, rules ICO
Elizabeth Denham, the information commissioner, said her investigation found that “WhatsApp has not identified a lawful basis of processing for any such sharing of personal data” and that “if they had shared the data, they would have been in contravention of the first and second data protection … Read More
Axis Bank to integrate WhatsApp’s UPI-based payment feature soon
Axis Bank will soon start processing payments over the popular instant messaging application WhatsApp. The bank is also looking to partner with other tech companies such as Google, Uber, Ola and Samsung for digital payments. Describing Unified Payment Interface as “huge opportunity”, Axis Bank … Read More
WhatsApp payments opens up to other UPI IDs
WhatsApp has now made it easier to send money to other UPI IDs. This addresses the criticism, especially by Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar, that WhatsApp's UPI did not have interoperability. When a user now clicks on the Send Payment option in Settings, there is a new 'Send to UPI ID' …
WhatsApp takes massive step to push PM Modi’s ‘Digital India’, ties-up with top banks for its …
WhatsApp last month had received a nod from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). With this, the Facebook-owned app has entered the league of Tez, BHIM and other UPI models which enable digital payments to its users. Interestingly according to a report by Indian Express in February, … Read More
Will ‘WhatsApping’ money change India’s e-payment market?
WhatsApp, the biggest instant messaging platform in India, is set to launch a payment service later this month. The BBC's Devina Gupta reports on how this could affect the country's $400bn (£290bn) mobile wallet market. WhatsApp is currently testing a beta version of its payment app, which it has rolled … …
Sri Lanka to lift Facebook, WhatsApp ban
A mobile phone screen shows that Facebook page can not open after the Sri Lankan government decided to shut down social messaging networks. (Reuters). Related Articles. Muslims pray under military protection in Sri Lanka after riots · Sri Lanka blocks social media as anti-Muslim rioting flares … Read More
After ICICI, WhatsApp ties up with Axis Bank to process payments
Mumbai-based private lender Axis Bank is all set to partner with popular messaging application WhatsApp to process payments. Bank officials said WhatsApp is currently undergoing integration following successful beta version trials. The Facebook-acquired app is in the test phase of its payments … Read More