Mumbai, Mar 8 (PTI) Launch of new services like payments over whatsapp may have resulted in regulatory arbitrage, but it will eventually converge with the rest of the industry, a senior HDFC Bank official said today. "There will be some arbitrage which is there from a regulatory or some of …

WhatsApp for Android beta testers can change the shape of icons. In the latest WhatsApp beta update, users can choose between circle, square, rounded square, squircle, and teardrop.”The icon is the same, except it's now encased in a mask that takes different shapes depending on what you set your … Read …

The Indian digital payments market which has about 60 non-banking players including Paytm, MobiKwik, Amazon Pay and Flipkart (PhonePe), faced a new challenge last month when Facebook-owned messaging company WhatsApp launched its peer-to-peer digital payments beta service in India. Read More

Earlier this month, Twitter began soliciting proposals from the public to help the platform capture, measure and evaluate healthy interactions. Today, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other members of the team held a public conversation via Periscope about the company's new initiative to measure healthy … Read More

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a Periscope livestream today that the company is working to allow any user to become verified. “The intention is to open verification to everyone,” Dorsey says. “And to do it in a way that's scalable, where [Twitter] is not in the way and people …

Have you always wanted a blue Twitter verification badge? You'll (eventually) be able to get one, according to CEO Jack Dorsey. In a very casual Periscope livestream on Thursday, Dorsey said that he wants to verify everyone on Twitter, a continuation of the plan Twitter laid out a few years …

In just a few years, augmented reality (AR) effects like animal masks and filters have taken off on social media apps as effortless tools for making selfies and messages more expressive and entertaining, simply using the smartphone in our pockets. The technology, however, has been nearly five decades … Read More

MUMBAI — In many countries, Facebook is contending with a darkening reputation as a vehicle for disinformation and false news. The most recent example: Sri Lanka. This week, the island country sought to block access to the social network, as well as two other platforms that Facebook owns, … Read More

“Facebook has played at times a negative role in the political discourse,” according to Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate Chris Hughes. “The algorithms are not neutral,” he said today at a Bloomberg Beta event promoting his new book Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and … Read More

Despite all its previous efforts to prevent the people it rules from engaging in the online trading of cryptocurrencies, the Chinese government is taking further action to deter the practice. According to reports, local internet users can still access the Chinese social media accounts of former-mainland … Read More