UPI, a payments infrastructure built by India’s largest banks, surpassed 2 billion transactions last month, exactly a year after hitting the 1 billion monthly transactions milestone.Driving the transa
WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app owned by Facebook, is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day, company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at the quarterly earnings call Thu
Security testing company NSS Labs “ceased operations” last week, the company said in a notice on its website, citing impacts related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The Austin, Texas-b
Pakistan has decided to lift a ban on popular social media app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading "obscenity and immorality," the country's telecom authority s
A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Thursday said she was "not inclined" to reverse her decision blocking the government from barring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering WeChat for down
Tiktok continues to face scrutiny from governments around the globe due to concerns over privacy, security and content shared.
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which invested $750 million in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms in June this year, has returned to invest just as much capital in Mukesh Ambani’s other venture.
GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, will invest $752 million in Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail, the Indian firm said Saturday midnight.The Government of Singapore Investment Corp is the fi
A month after completing Y Combinator’s accelerator program, BukuWarung, an financial tech startup that serves small businesses in Indonesia, announced it has raised new funding from a roster of high-
A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the U.S. Commerce Department from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads by late Sunday.U.S. Magist
The logo of Tencent is seen at the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services, September 6, 2020, Beijing. /VCG WeChat developer Tencent on Sunday said the application may not be able
WeChat developer Tencent has called the U.S. ban on the app starting from Sunday "unfortunate," saying the company will continue discussions with the U.S. government for a long-term solution.The U
Facebook this morning launched a new app designed to make it easier for businesses to manage their pages and profiles across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger in a single place. The app, Facebook Bus
Stan Chudnovsky last spoke at Disrupt in 2016, so we’ve got a lot to catch up on.Chudnovsky remains in charge of Facebook Messenger — his current title is VP of Messenger — so he can tell us m
For years, India has served as the largest open battleground for Silicon Valley and Chinese firms searching for their next billion users.With more than 400 million WhatsApp users, India is already the
Facebook is announcing a number of new e-commerce features both within the main Facebook app and on Instagram.The pandemic has forced many businesses to shift online, and Facebook made a big announce
Facebook is facing heat in India, its biggest market by users, over a report that claimed the company compromised its hate speech policy to favor the ruling party.Politicians from both Bharatiya Jana