Tag: WhatsApp Payments

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 has finally received all the required approvals and permissions to expand WhatsApp Pay in India. The news comes at a time when the...

Following dire predictions from 'experts' and persistent skepticism from politicians, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has told the Supreme Court that WhatsApp doesn't...

If you've been keeping tabs on WhatsApp Payments rollout in India, then you would know that its official rollout to all users was held...

The state of WhatsApp's UPI-based payments service in India has been stuck in limbo, but it seems wider roll-out  of WhatsApp Payments might finally move forward....

The Indian government is further strengthening its stance on data privacy and wants companies to store user data exclusively in India. Taking another step...

WhatsApp is aiming to make it easier for users to quickly share their contact details by introducing a QR code system with a simple...

It's been months since WhatsApp has knocked on the Indian government's doors for the final approvals for a wider rollout of UPI-based WhatsApp Payments...

The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre and messaging service provider WhatsApp after a plea sought direction to restrain the app from...

WhatsApp's UPI-based WhatsApp Payments has so far been available to only a limited set of users in India, and its wider rollout has been delayed due to...

WhatsApp has been teasing its Payments service in India for a long time and if you're wondering why the feature hasn't moved past the...

WhatsApp is undoubtedly the biggest instant-messaging app right now, with billions of users. In fact, the app now offers a lot in a single...

As WhatsApp prepares for the public launch of its WhatsApp Payments service to its millions of users in India, the messaging giant is now...

Since its release, WhatsApp's payments feature had been limited to sending and receiving to and from other people who had linked their UPI IDs...

WhatsApp was expected to begin the wider rollout of its UPI-based peer-to-peer payment service, WhatsApp Payments, in the first week of June, but it...

WhatsApp Payments, the UPI-based feature part of the popular messaging app, has been available to a handful of Indian users since February. The service...

With WhatsApp's UPI-based payments platform expected to give stiff competition to the incumbents, market-leader Paytm has been on a virtual warpath against the Facebook-owned...

Paytm is India's largest digital payments company, and has repeatedly opposed the entry of foreign players in Indian the financial scape. Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma...

To tap into India's booming digital payments ecosystem, WhatsApp launched UPI-enabled payments feature to its users in the country. This feature was initially sparse...

Even as WhatsApp keeps touting its end-to-end encryption, questions about its data-privacy practices continue to linger. Following outrage surrounding its revelations that it shares...