Good News! WhatsApp update brings QR code scan feature to make payments easier; here is how …
WhatsApp has added a QR Code payments option for the users in its latest update that will enable people to pay through their messaging app. However, this facility of payments option is currently available on Android beta version only. The update was rolled out on Sunday and is available for …
Robbery victim uses WhatsApp to recover goods
BENGALURU: A victim of a housebreak theft launched his own investigation to recover the stolen booty and got the two accused behind bars with help from Siddapura police. The accused are painters Salman Khan, 22, of Arakere and Mohammed Jabiulla, 23, of Someswaranagar. Videographer Ayaz … Read More
PhonePe raises funds to take on new players like Tez & WhatsApp
The latest funding comes at a time when the UPI platform has seen entry of global names like WhatsApp Pay and Google's Tez which are disrupting the payments landscape here. The fresh capital will provide ammunition to PhonePe in its fight against global giants as well as local player like …
WhatsApp Beta for Android gets QR code payments feature
WhatsApp users received the UPI payment feature, which was highly-anticipated by users in February. Now, the latest Android beta version of WhatsApp has received another much-awaited feature, which is the QR Code payments option. As the name indicates, this feature will let you make payments … Read More
Virtual campaigning takes centre-stage as Karnataka polls draw near
The BJP social media cell in Karnataka will have 23,000 WhatsApp groups created with close to 4500 people handling the party's social media activities. Their #BJP4UP twitter handle saw a following of 40,000. This evolved into a major communication vehicle during the campaign. The party also had … Read More
Odisha learns from TN tragedy, develops plan to avoid forest fires
A WhatsApp group called “Forest Fire Alert” has been created for sharing alerts and information to facilitate tracking, preventing and fighting such fires. The adverse impact of a forest fire has resulted in wild animals such as leopards, elephant, wild boars and bears straying into human habitation, … Read More
Campus Debate
Acton, one of the co-founders of WhatsApp, asking us to #deletefacebook won't have any eff ect. He's already created and sold a major data source in the form of WhatsApp to Facebook. But other activists like Edward Snowden have been warning us of numerous data breaches for years now. Read …
Tech Titan Challenged Elon Musk to Delete Facebook Accounts
Jan Koum and Acton, the co-founders of WhatsApp, sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 in a deal that was worth $16 billion. Acton's worth is more than six billion dollars. He left Facebook to launch his own non-profit foundation earlier in 2018. He has also invested $50 million in an …
South Africa’s first Western to hit cinemas
WHILE it has been five years since, 'Five Fingers for Marseilles' was awarded Best South African Film in Development at the Durban FilmMart's finance forum, it is only now that South Africans will get the opportunity to see the movie, considered to completely redefine the international perception of what … Read …
Lohani stresses need to change “mindset”
"The idea was not to stop unnecessary expenses, but to change the mindset and to bridge the gap between our own staffers and officials," he said, adding that he himself is connected with scores of railway workers and officers through WhatsApp, and employees share their personal grievances and … Read More