Facebook – the company, not the social media platform, has announced plans to rebrand as Meta. The new parent company showcases the company’s new direction, which is to become a social technology company and focus on bringing the ‘metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses’. As per the official statement […]
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Facebook Unveil Stories, New In-App Camera and Direct Features
In a bid to lure more people from Snapchat, especially teenagers; Facebook has over the months been aggressively duplicating features a la Snapchat. The company made its intentions obvious with the launch of Instagram Stories and this features has been extended to Whatsapp, Messenger and now Facebook. The social media giant added Facebook Stories as […]
Whatsapp Video Calling Now Live
Never afraid to take on competition and beat them at their own game, popular messaging app, Whatsapp has added video calling to its platform. This latest feature has been long time coming and has begun rolling out to all users on Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Similar to Microsoft’s Skype, Apple’s FaceTime, Google’s new Duo […]
Whatsapp Video Calling Feature Available for Android
Facebook owned instant messaging app ‘WhatsApp‘ has introduced a video calling feature for it android users. After recently adding the voice calling feature in March 2015, it has now introduced the video calling feature for selected beta version users. The Whatsapp Video Calling Feature is only accessible when your app is updated to the new […]
Whatsapp Reach 1 Billion Monthly Active Users Mark
Popular messaging app, Whatsapp has reached the milestone of 1 Billion monthly active users – this means nearly one in seven people on earth use Whatsapp. The Facebook-owned messaging service joins the rank of the few apps and platforms such as Facebook and Gmail which have either reached or surpassed the milestone. Whatsapp has more […]
Whatsapp crosses 900 million monthly active users mark
Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform, Whatsapp has crossed the 900 million monthly active users. The company crossed the 800 million mark almost 4 – 5 months ago (April) but it is unlikely the app will cross the 1 Billion mark before the end of 2015. The new milestone was announced by Whatsapp CEO and co-founder, Jan […]
Finally Whatsapp for Windows Phone Gets Voice Calling Feature
Whatsapp has finally added the the Voice calling feature update to the Whatsapp for Windows Phone app. The feature was rolled out to beta testers late last month. The Voice calling feature which is already available on Android, Blackberry 10 and iOS versions of the app lets you make voice calls to other Whatsapp users […]
Facebook Messenger crosses 700 Million Monthly Active Users
Hot on the heels of joining the over 1 Billion download club on Play Store, Facebook Messenger has now officially passed the 700 million monthly active users mark. During Facebook’s annual investor meeting on Last week Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook Messenger now has a total of 700 million monthly active users. The company’s […]
Whatsapp for iOS Voice calling feature arrives on version 2.12.1
Popular mobile messaging service, Whatsapp has ousted the voice calling feature for iOS, a feature which Whatsapp for Android users should have all gotten now. The feature for iOS unlike Android would be ‘rolling out slowly over several weeks’ so some patience might have to be exercised. The Whatsapp for iOS Voice Calling Feature is […]
Whatsapp 2.14.25 Update brings Google Drive Backup and Restore option
First of all, it looks like the good ol folks at the Android apps developer team at Whatsapp comes up with so many things to make the messaging more appealing to the droid fanboys. We have seen the Whatsapp Web Client, the new voice calling feature and now there is an option to backup or […]