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Signal Beeps Louder In India As WhatsApp Tweaks Policy
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India Inc. Cautions Employees On WhatsApp Privacy Policy Changes
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New WhatsApp Messenger Policy | Corporates Issue Advisories On Use For Official Business: Report
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WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy Triggers Exodus Of Users To Rival Platforms
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WhatsApp Privacy Controversy: Invite Links Appear On Google, Calls To Boycott Grow Louder
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Users Drop WhatsApp Over Its ‘End Of Privacy’ Policy
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Users Ditch WhatsApp For Signal And Telegram On Privacy Concerns
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WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy Prompts Users to Migrate to Signal, Telegram
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Truecaller’s True Calling
When Swedish nationals Nami Zarringhalam and Alan Mamedi founded Truecaller in 2009, they didn’t have India on their radar, not even remotely. They had built the caller-id app for personal use, to screen calls from angry companies who wanted reviews…
Chinese Dating App Tantan Doubles Its User Base Every Three Months In India
Tantan, a Chinese dating application that was launched in India last year, says it is doubling its user base every three months in the country, as it plans to take on Tinder in one of the world’s largest online dating markets. Tantan,…
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Facebook: Too Big To Delete?
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Facebook Tying Up With Entrepreneurs To Solve India’s Low-Internet Connectivity Problem
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Facebook Brings Express WiFi To India, Partners With Airtel For 700 Hotspots
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Twitter Southeast Asia And India MD Brushes Turmoil, Launches Twitter Lite In India First
Micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday released Twitter Lite -- a much lighter version of its platform on a web based service in India first. After the turbulence of 2016, Twitter is expecting a smoother year ahead, with the micro-blogging firm…
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It’s No Holds Barred In The Video Chat War
Last week, the world’s most used instant messaging service WhatsApp added a new feature to its already popular platform. The Facebook-owned company launched a video calling facility which allows users to see others while talking. Just a few months earlier…
Users Voice Concern Over WhatsApp Sharing Phone Numbers With Facebook
Even as analysts said that WhatsApp’s decision to change its privacy policy, which entails sharing users’ account info with parent Facebook, is not a user friendly move, they believe most consumers will stick with the platform and not migrate to…
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Lifestage: Is Facebook Facing An Identity Crisis?
Is Facebook Inc. facing an identity crisis? What else could explain why the social networking company launched a stand-alone app for teenagers which does not require a Facebook account. The app called Lifestage is for those under 21, created by a…
Google, FB And Battle For Offline Internet In India
It is a Monday afternoon in early July. Kumar and his friends, who work at an eating joint in Delhi’s Chittaranjan Park area, have just finished their afternoon chores. Kumar’s friends huddle around him, though the centre of their attraction,…
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Father didn’t tell him to, but Kavin Mittal took a Hike
Hike Messenger’s new office at the Aerocity in Delhi was designed by Kavin Mittal, its 27-year-old CEO. That is in keeping with Mittal’s career choices; he chooses to build his own things. He could have joined any of the several…
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Net neutrality debate enters final stages, deadlock continues
Telecom service providers and net neutrality activists stuck to their stands at an open session hosted by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on differential pricing on Thursday. The debate has entered its final stage with Trai giving parties until…
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PHD CCI to debate Net Neutrality and Free basics today
On a cold Thursday afternoon, arguments and counter arguments on Net Neutrality and Facebook’s ‘Free Basic’ could well heat up the Lakshmipat Singhania Auditorium in the Capital. It is here that the telecom regulator’s open house is scheduled to discuss…
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Why is Tinder opening its first international office in Delhi?
Three years after it launched in India, Tinder has chosen to set up its first international office in Delhi. The social app hopes to make India—which currently does not feature among its top five geographies—as one of its “core markets,”…
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Why is Tinder opening its first international office in Delhi?
Three years after it launched in India, Tinder has chosen to set up its first international office in Delhi. The social app hopes to make India – which currently does not feature among its top five geographies – as one…
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True Caller to expand presence in India
India, which is the largest market for the app, has about 80 million users of Truecaller. Truecaller, a caller identification app launched by Stockholm-based True Software Scandinavia AB, expects to double its user base globally to 300 million, with half the…
Directi launches voice app Ringo, allows to make overseas calls without internet
Directi has launched an app, Ringo, which allows users to make overseas calls without the Internet, Wi-Fi or carrier minutes at rates that it claims are about 70% lower than those offered by mobile phone companies and credit based calls…
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Skype to discontinue calls to Indian landline and mobile numbers
Microsoft's Skype has announced that from November 10 it would stop calls from Skype to cellular or landline numbers in India. The calls between Skype to Skype users, using internet connection, would continue to work normally. Commenting on the development,…
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