Emergency requests from India to Facebook almost doubled to 1,615 in January-June period of 2019, as opposed to only 861 requests in July-December period of 2018

Unlike Facebook Pay which seems more of an integration of cross-platform services, WhatsApp pay will be a peer-to-peer, unified payment interface (UPI) based service that will enable users to transfer money within the instant messaging app

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

Google could use the RCS messaging platform to strengthen its advertising business. Facebook too, via WhatsApp, is looking to introduce advertisements to its messenger app. Google could do the same and eventually look to enable businesses to send messages to their potential customers

Zuckerberg last appeared before Congress in April 2018 when he fielded 10 hours of questions over two days from House and Senate panels on political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica's misuse of Facebook customer data to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.

Apart from the splash screen feature, WhatsApp is also working on features like - disappearing/self-destructing messages and dark mode

Reliance Jio has the highest 4G availability in the country at 97.8 per cent followed by Airtel at 89.2 per cent. In short, Jio's users were connected to its network 97.8 per cent of the time.

Recently, Instagram also launched Threads app that allowed users on Instagram to chat with their close friends

WhatsApp feature: One major advantage of having dark mode, other than the fact that it looks good, is that it saves battery, especially on the phones having AMOLED displays

WhatsApp features: Hre're some top features that WhatsApp must implement before the end of the year for both iOS and Android users

WhatsApp bug relies on an attacker sending the harmful GIF file to a user. Once the GIF is on the device, the attack gets triggered by merely opening the media gallery within WhatsApp

WhatsApp features: The chat app users can set the time of expiry for the messages sent in group chats from the Group Settings menu

Facebook has retaliated against the government's move to give themselves a backdoor entry into the private chat platform

WhatsApp has informed via its FAQ page that all Android phones running on Android 2.3.7 operating system and iPhones running on iOS 7 will not support WhatsApp from February 1, 2020, onwards

WhatsApp features: These simple chat app tricks that will enhance your overall messaging experience

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

WhatsApp has implemented end-to-end encryption for its billion-plus users to ensure that the conversations on the platform remains private