Meta has announced it will begin showing advertisements in WhatsApp's Status feature, marking a significant shift for the messaging platform that has remained largely ad-free since its acquisition by Facebook in 2014.
WhatsApp has announced a series of updates to its Status feature on May 29, bringing it closer in style and function to Facebook Stories.
WhatsApp has announced that it is introducing a new in-app translation feature that enables users to translate messages and channel updates directly within the app, using entirely on-device processing to maintain privacy and preserve end-to-end encryption.
WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Meta Platforms, has accused Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions of targeting approximately 90 of its users, including journalists and members of civil society, as per a recent report by Reuters.
As part of the company’s "ship-mas" campaign, OpenAI has recently introduced a new feature allowing users to call or message ChatGPT directly over the phone or WhatsApp.
Meta’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, experienced significant outages on Wednesday night, affecting thousands of users globally.
India’s Competition Commission (CCI) has fined Meta Platforms $25.4 million and restricted the company from sharing data between WhatsApp and its other apps for advertising purposes, according to a recent report by Reuters.
Discover the quirky characters in your office chat groups: the Pioneer, Mime Artist, Podcaster, Alien, Ghost, and Boss. From endless GIFs to unwelcome voice notes, identify and laugh at these familiar faces!
It will severely curtail people's fundamental freedoms
With WhatsApp's new Windows app, you can now send, receive, and sync messages without connecting to your phone. According to a website update by WhatsApp, the updated Windows app is now out of beta and accessible for download from the Microsoft Store.
WhatsApp users will soon be able to avoid social awkwardness by gracefully, and silently, leaving groups, the company has announced.
WhatsApp has banned more than 22 lakh Indian accounts in June this year on the basis of complaints received via its grievance redressal channel and through its own mechanism to detect violations, according to the messaging platform.
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that users can now react with any emoji on WhatsApp.
This week, WhatsApp added a number of new features, including the ability to mute people during group calls (via Android Central). This sanity-saving feature appears to be useful not only for muting people who forget to do so, but also if you're in the same room as someone else on the call and don't want to hear an echo of their words.
Mark Zuckerberg has finally announced a long-awaited WhatsApp update that will make the Android to iOS transition much smoother, and vice-versa. According to Mark, users will now be able to switch between the two operating systems seamlessly, without losing their WhatsApp chat history or content.
The impossible has happened. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp et al — social media, as we know it, was down for some six hours. And, we survived!
Facebook said it is trying to get its messaging apps to be friends, allowing encrypted missives be exchanged no matter which of its services are used.
Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messenger service is globally limiting the number of times a user can forward a message to five, in a bid to fight "misinformation and rumours", company executives say.
New European research finds that even just a one-week break from social media can cause withdrawal symptoms similar to those experienced when quitting addictive substances.
