The buzz is that the investors include Ant Financial, one of Paytm's earliest backers, and Softbank Group Corp, which had pumped in $1.4 billion last year, the largest fund infusion by a single investor in a desi start-up

Certain market participants are spreading false/misleading rumours against the company's financial services business in an attempt to create panic among various stakeholders, Piramal Enterprises said in a regulatory filing

At the billing counter, when a merchant will enter the bill amount on the POS or the card swipe machine, the soundwave will process the transaction and a notification for authentication will pop-up on your phone.

Facebook is working on its own payment system for its family of apps, including WhatsApp

Paytm extortion case: The case is with the courts and yet to close - so how could Dhawan be reinstated in a related company? Has an internal investigation found her not guilty?

According to the Paytm founder, ESOPs worth $150 million were sold by Paytm's employees to New York-based investors nearly three months back valuing the company at $15 billion, compared to $12 billion last year when Berkshire Hathaway came on board

Madhur  Deora joined the digital payment firm Paytm in October 2016

Indian digital platform Meesho has raised $125 million in its latest funding round, led by South African internet group Naspers, the e-commerce start-up said on Monday.

The Meesho platform allows re-sellers of everything from jewellery to mobile phones to reach prospective customers via social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram

WhatsApp has been testing a peer-to-peer payments service for over a year in India, its biggest market by users, but local data storage norms have delayed an official launch

India's top court has given the central bank six weeks to report on whether WhatsApp had complied with data localization norms as the Facebook-owned messenger gears up to launch a payments service in the country, a person involved in the matter said.

Instagram hides 'likes': At present, followers can see the number of people who have liked an Instagram post, but with this new feature only the user's \"name and others\" will be visible below the post

Popular chat app Whatsapp has assured action on the issue of message traceability, an issue on its platform that has been a thorny one between India and WhatsApp for over a year now, as the messaging platform faces pressure from India to bring in the traceability of fake message originators.

WhatsApp Payments: WhatsApp's UPI-based payment service, which will compete against the likes of Paytm, PhonePe and Google Pay, has previously been caught in a bind over concerns around authentication and its data storage practices

WhatsApp's ambitious payment services' blueprint in India has been caught in a bind over concerns around authentication and its data storage practices

The I-T department has found that a lot of global firms operating in India have been underreporting their incomes owing to the withholding tax or equalisation levy being imposed on them.