Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service rolled out a system across Brazil on Monday that will allow users to send money to individuals or local businesses within a chat, attaching payment as they would a photo or video.
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Facebook has changed the name of the digital wallet to be used with its new cryptocurrency, the latest in a number of changes to the digital currency and its ecosystem.
Facebook is launching Shops, a service that will allow businesses to display and sell products on the world’s largest social network’s platforms, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday.
Facebook is introducing new Messenger Rooms that can host groups of people on video – including those who do not have an account.
Facebook will invest $5.7-billion in the digital assets controlled by India’s richest man, the US social-networking giant’s biggest deal since the 2014 purchase of WhatsApp.
MTN South Africa has introduced new social bundles, including a plan that offers 10GB of data, with YouTube access, for R120.
WhatsApp has introduced new stricter limits on message forwarding in a bid to stop the spread of disinformation.
Gustav Praekelt, founder of the non-profit behind the department of health’s wildly successful Covid-19 WhatsApp platform, joins the podcast to talk about the service, and how it ratcheted up more than two million users in short order.
About two weeks ago, Praekelt.org, a non-profit foundation that runs a WhatsApp service on maternal well-being for South Africa’s health department, proposed setting up a similar programme to keep people informed about the coronavirus.