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Facebook has long been working on raising WhatsApp's profile as a channel for businesses to interact with (and sell to) their customers. Today, a startup that has built a suite of tools for retailers and others to build and run those services over WhatsApp and other messaging platforms is announcing growth funding to address that opportunity. Yalo, which describes itself as a c-commerce ("chat commerce") startup building tools for businesses to use messaging apps as part of thei...

Yalo, the conversational commerce (c-commerce) platform previously known as Yalochat, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of financing, bringing total capital raised to date to $75 million. The round was led by existing venture investor B Capital Group, a venture capital firm co-founded by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Yalo platform enables large enterprise businesses like Unilever, Nestle, Coca-Cola and Walmart to communicate and transact directly with consumers through messagi...

Telegram and other secure messaging apps have become a haven for professional criminals to wreak havoc and turn a profit.

Hateful messages. >> 200 comments of pictures with hitler and dead jews saying he should have finished the job, stuff like that, lot of fake news. >> reporter: just a snapshot of the hateful and misleading content spreading on social media. like this video shared on israeli messaging platform telegraph allegedly showing fake body bags in gaza, which came from egyptian newspaper in 2013. not new but dangerous evolution. content spreading into messaging apps, used to whip up anger and organize qui...

With all the social media apps on your phone, its sometimes hard to keep up with all the important messages (unless of course, you turn on your Do Not Disturb setting to find some peace). It becomes a bit tricky when strangers add you to group chats you dont even care about (like how sketchy people can tag and add you on some random Facebook groups). ICYDK, you can prevent this from happening on Viber just by changing your privacy settings, according to their websites FAQs. How to control who ...

The Facebook-owned company announced a contentious privacy policy update in January, triggering a mass exodus of users to rival apps Signal and Telegram.

A group of anthropologists from the U.K.'s University College London (UCL) came to the conclusion that humans have become so dependent on smartphones as part of everyday life that these [...]

What You Should Know Before Accepting WhatsApps New Privacy Policy Tomorrow is the deadline to accept the new privacy policy, but look at these points before deciding. Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! Email May 14, 2021 4 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. Tomorrow is the deadline to for those deciding whether or not to accept WhatsApps privacy policy....

© Getty The popular messaging app Discord has reportedly stopped discussions to sell to potential buyers as it continues to consider an initial public offering (IPO). Sources close to the matter told The Wall Street Journal that talks with tech giant Microsoft had ended without a deal being reached, though the possibility of rekindling them was left open. In March, it was reported that Microsoft was in talks to purchase Discord. The messaging app has more than 100 million monthly users and wa...

How to hide online status on WhatsApp to protect privacy Meira GebelApr 9, 2021, 02:56 IST WhatsApps online or "last seen" status tells other users when youre using the app, but you can turn it off.Uwe Krejci/Getty Images You can hide your WhatsApp online status if you dont want others to see when youre online. WhatsApp normally allows everyone to view your online status, but its easy to change in the apps settings. If you hide your online status on WhatsApp, you also wont be able to see ot...