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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 their customer outreach and sales strategies, has raised $50 million, funding that it will be using to e...

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 messaging apps like WhatsApp. Yalo, which has operations in India, US, Mexico and Brazil, will use the fin...

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 quickly. >> israel is whatsapp nation, everybody is using it. >> reporter: runs fakereporter, a group f...

With all the social media apps on your phone, it's 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 don't 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 website's FAQs. How to control who can add you to Viber groups: Open Viber on your mobile phone (this doesn't work on desktop)