Tag: WhatsApp Pay
WhatsApp Pay Usage Declines in January 2021
Overcoming several hurdles, WhatsApp finally launched WhatsApp Pay in India last November. In the first month, the feature received a modest 0.31 million customer-initiated...
WhatsApp Pay is Finally Live in India on Android and iOS
WhatsApp has finally received all the required approvals and permissions to expand WhatsApp Pay in India. The news comes at a time when the...
Competition Commission of India Dismisses Antitrust Case Against WhatsApp
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has dismissed an antitrust case against Facebook-owned WhatsApp. The order was made public on Tuesday (August 18). Earlier...
WhatsApp Doesn’t Have Permission to Start Full-Scale Operations in India: RBI
The never-ending saga of WhatsApp Pay has taken yet another turn. In an affidavit to the Supreme Court this week, the RBI asserted that...
WhatsApp Pay Suspended in Brazil Just Over a Week After its Launch
Just over a week after its launch in Brazil, WhatsApp's payments service has been suspended by the country's central bank. According to Reuters, the...
WhatsApp Pay Will Comply With Data Localization Laws in India by May: Report
WhatsApp has reportedly told the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) that its payments business will comply with all regulations in the country by...
WhatsApp Reportedly Gets Regulatory Approval for WhatsApp Pay in India
WhatsApp finally appears to have dealt with all the data compliance issues that stopped the company from rolling out the service widely in the...
WhatsApp Pay Will Expand to More Countries This Year: Zuckerberg
Despite a delay in launching WhatsApp Pay in India owing to data compliance issues, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the peer-to-peer, UPI-based...
WhatsApp Pay Will Soon Launch in India, Says Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook is inching closer to launch much-anticipated WhatsApp Pay in India and will soon have a positive news to share, the company's CEO Mark...
WhatsApp Pay Confirmed to Launch in India Later This Year
Facebook-owned WhatsApp will launch its peer-to-peer, UPI-based payments service in India later this year, the company's Global Head, Will Cathcart, announced in New Delhi...
Paytm Attacks WhatsApp Payments Over Facebook’s Ties With Cambridge Analytica
The launch of WhatsApp's UPI-enabled digital payments service, WhatsApp Payments, surely ruffled the feathers of its biggest competitor in India i.e Paytm. Back in...
‘Most Evil Company in The World’: Paytm Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma Slams Facebook
After trying WhatsApp's UPI-based payment feature, we found it really handy and easy to use. But, the service has not been receiving a lot...