For the past year, Huawei has gradually been beefing up the AppGallery, its rival to Apple’s App Store and Google Play. This week sees a crucial new addition, according to people familiar with the project, in the form of Bolt, its first ride-hailing app that serves the European market. Bolt is an Estonia-based ride-hailing company …
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WhatsApp digital payments have been suspended by Brazil’s Central Bank a week after the feature launched in the country. The bank ordered Visa and Mastercard to stop payments and money transfers through the app or risk facing fines. With this decision, the Central Bank aims “to preserve an adequate competitive environment, which ensures the functioning of an interoperable, fast, secure, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple debuts Messages for iOS 14 with new Memoji 3:05 Apple is bringing changes to Messages. Screenshot Apple announced a whole range of changes coming to the next version of its iPhone software, iOS 14, on Monday during its …
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WhatsApp is bringing digital payments to its users in Brazil, according to a blog post on Monday. The app’s payments are enabled through Facebook Pay, an online payment service the social media giant announced late last year. The expansion of Facebook Pay on WhatsApp aims to let people safely and easily send money through the app, according to WhatsApp. The …
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Facebook said Tuesday that users will be able to shop without leaving the social network by visiting a business’ Facebook page or Instagram profile, a move that comes as more people turn to e-commerce because of the coronavirus pandemic. In the future, users will also be able to shop through the company’s messaging services, including Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram Direct, the …
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Want to video or voice chat with more people over WhatsApp? Now you can. In a new update released Monday, the popular messaging app is bumping up the number of people who can be on a video or voice call at once to eight, double its previous limit of four, the company said in an update note on the iPhone …
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WhatsApp has seen a major reduction in viral messages since it imposed new limits on message forwarding earlier this month, according to TechCrunch. The spread of “highly forwarded” messages on the service has dropped by 70% globally, a spokesperson told the site. The Facebook-owned service pushed back against misinformation linked to the coronavirus outbreak by introducing friction into the message …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. James McConnell didn’t know much about Facebook’s Portal until Nan Owen, his 91-year-old neighbor, needed help setting up her video chat device last month as the UK locked down to combat the coronavirus. Owen’s active social life — friends and family would stop …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook is releasing a new feature that lets you video chat with multiple people through Messenger even if you don’t have a social media account, a move that could help the company compete with popular videoconferencing app Zoom. The world’s largest social network …
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Facebook on Tuesday revealed that it’d made a $5.7 billion investment in India’s Jio Platforms, making it the telecom giant’s largest minority shareholder at nearly 10%. The company, which is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has brought 388 million people online in less than four years, making it the country’s biggest carrier. The social network tried to bring internet access …
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