Last October, Facebook extended the usage (and flexibility) of Instagram Stories — the Snapchat-like feature that lets you patch together photos and videos into a slide show — by making it easy to directly post a Story to Facebook. Now Facebook is looking at how to bring WhatsApp into the fold. Read More
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France puts Facebook on notice over WhatsApp data transfers
Facebook and WhatsApp have been issued with formal notices by France’s data protection watchdog warning that data transfers being carried out for ‘business intelligence’ purposes currently lack a legal basis — and consequently that Facebook Inc, WhatsApp’s owner, has violated the French Data Protection Act. Read More
Line adds unsend for recalling missent messages
Messaging platform Line has added the ability for users to retrieve messages they’ve sent in error. Read More
WhatsApp business accounts will either be verified, confirmed or unconfirmed
Another tidbit around how WhatsApp’s incoming business accounts will function: According to a FAQ for users of the messaging platform — on “Chatting with businesses” — they will either have one of three status types: unconfirmed, confirmed or verified. Read More
WACAO is an assistant that can summarize and translate your WhatsApp chats
If you’re a heavy WhatsApp user, you know how hard it is to keep up with incoming messages – especially if you step away from your phone and group conversations for a few hours. A new assistant called WACAO (aka, Whatsapp Chat Assistant) aims to help by summarizing what you missed while you were gone. The assistant can also translate messages between different languages and… Read More
Now you can play YouTube videos right inside WhatsApp
With WhatsApp, you can finally watch videos with your friends.
The messaging platform has rolled out a new update to its iOS app that will allow users to play YouTube videos within the app itself, Hindustan Times reports.
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Unsending your texts is finally coming to Line, one of Asia’s top messenger apps
Finally, you can unsend that embarrassing text on Line messenger.
The app, which is hugely popular in Japan and Thailand, will start allowing users to retract messages that they’ve sent to friends, reports SoraNews24.
The feature will be available in…
This fake WhatsApp app has been downloaded more than a million times
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We’re surrounded by hoaxes, fake news, spam, malware and…fake apps.
A fake Android app which was disguised as an update to the popular WhatsApp messaging service was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store.
Named “Update WhatsApp Messenger” and developed by “WhatsApp Inc.”, the app looked pretty much identical to the official one. It was changed to a different name and then deleted altogether, according to the Reddit user who first flagged the case.
Fake WhatsApp Update on #GooglePlay . Under the “same” dev name. Incl. a Unicode whitespace. One Million downloadshttps://t.co/qjqxd6n6HP pic.twitter.com/dmvTksqpuP
— Nikolaos Chrysaidos (@virqdroid) November 3, 2017 Read more…
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View More This fake WhatsApp app has been downloaded more than a million timesWhatsApp’s hour-long outage today was global in scale, likely caused by software bug
Did WhatsApp go down for you earlier today? You weren’t alone. The Facebook-owned messaging service experienced a roughly hour-long global outage on Friday, which led to difficulties in accessing the app and sending messages to friends. While no online service is immune to the occasional hiccup, this outage was notable for its global scale which impacted WhatsApp’s sizable user… Read More
WhatsApp is down and people are panicking
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OK guys, time to freak out.
Whatsapp is down — again — and people are taking to Twitter and Facebook to express frustration, anger, disappointment, despair.
The messaging app, owned by Facebook, is used by some 1.2 billion people around the world.
According to Down Detector, the outage started around 7am BST on November 3 and is still ongoing in large parts of Europe and South East Asia.
Whatsapp is having issues since 3:10 AM EDThttps://t.co/45TudhG7Nb RT if it’s down for you as well #Whatsappdown
— DownDetector (@downdetector) November 3, 2017 Read more…
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