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About 5 per cent Indians have deleted Whatsapp and another 22 per cent have reduced usage drastically after the Facebook-owned messaging giant recently revealed plans to update its privacy policy, according to the community platform LocalCircles. Three weeks since WhatsApp came out with the new privacy policy, LocalCircles has conducted another survey to understand if people are actually leaving the platform and migrating. Leaving a social network is not easy because the whole network or at ...

By Press Association 2021 A woman draped in an American flag walks past a banner supporting President Donald Trump (Jae C. Hong/AP) President Donald Trump has been kicked off most mainstream social media platforms following his supporters’ siege on the US Capitol. But it remains to be seen how fast or where, if anywhere, on the internet he will be able to reach his followers. The far right-friendly Parler had been the leading candidate, ...

This Week in Apps: TikTok viral hit breaks Spotify records, inauguration boosts news app installs, judge rules against Parler Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone....

Court rules ecommerce giant is under no obligation to host some Parler users' "incendiary speech."

Reuters When WhatsApp announced an update to its privacy terms earlier this month, many among its 2 billion users worldwide raced to download rival apps Signal and Telegram, including those in Asia’s second- and third-largest countries, India and Indonesia . But analysts say abandoning the messaging app will be harder for the 450 million users in India, who form WhatsApp’s largest base worldwide, and the 140 million in Indonesia, where the app has surged in popularity in recent years. Incre...

Fitness apps are relying on the tried-and-true subscription model to encourage people to keep their New Year's Resolutions — or at least to keep paying.

What you need to know Installations of news apps on iOS rose by 170% in the run-up to the Presidential Inauguration. A new report says that installations of news apps in the run-up to the Presidential election surged by some 170%. Mobile users in the United States turned to their phones and tablets to follow a mostly virtual Inauguration Day, propelling apps from news outlets and aggregators up the Apple App Store charts, Sensor Tower App Intelligence data reveals. Among all free iPhone apps on...

Could Match's female-oriented rival replicate its multibagger gains?

Where everybody knows your name Messaging services are providing a more private internet This has advantages—and risks W HATSAPP, WHICH 2bn people use to send some 100bn messages a day, is rarely in the news. When it is, the stories are mostly about whether, in order to increase competition, it should be hived off from its corporate parent, Facebook—a company rarely out of the news. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. The difference in visibility is basic to t...

Signal and competitor Telegram have topped the charts both in Apple and Google’s app stores ever since WhatsApp changed its terms of service on 6 January