A day after getting permission to raise its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) user base to 100 million, WhatsApp on Thursday said it has plans to make significant investments in 'payments on WhatsApp' across India, including India-first features and driving adoption. The company, however, did not share details of its plans. The Meta-owned messaging app got its first greenlight for its payments service from the National Payments Council of India (NPCI) in November 2020 with a cap of 20 million users. A year later, in November 2021, the limit was raised to 40 million users.
Pichai wants to get a billion Indians online.
Its entry will increase competition especially when WhatsApp too has received approvals to launch payment service.
Can Google's Moto X win over consumers despite being low on camera functionality and an okay battery back up?
Smart homes that do your everyday tasks are now coming on the Indian market. Several real estate firms are making this reality as they venture into constructing automated homes.
Losing a phone has become even more costly after the government's push for a cashless society
WhatsApp on Tuesday said its latest policy update does not affect the privacy of messages as the Facebook-owned company sought to address concerns around security of user data on the platform.
Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com tells you what the phone is about.
The Sony Xperia 5 inherits almost all the features from its flagship sibling, Xperia 1, launched earlier this year.
Installing a new app? Rediff.com's Ashish Narsale shows you how to do it safely.
The device delivers more performance and comparable battery life in an attractive and impossibly thin-and-light package.
The Nubia Red Magic 3S is delightfully designed and immensely powerful, says Veer Arjun Singh.
It's a good deal for those looking for stock Android experience without compromising.
the Nexus 5X is everything a smartphone should be and will soon be climbing the rungs of the popularity ladder.
Handle cards like you would handle cash.
It is priced at a whooping 49,999, but to justify that, it has top-notch specs, says Uttaran Das Gupta
Professor Masooda Bashir and doctoral student Tanusree Sharma from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign analysed 50 COVID-19-related apps available in the Google Play store for their access to users' personal data and their privacy protections. The researchers noted that it is disconcerting that these apps are continuously collecting and processing highly sensitive and personally identifiable information, about health, location and direct identifiers like name, age, email address and voter or national identification of a user.
In a recent study, Google India revealed trends amongst women internet users in India.
A yellow-sari daintily clad Indrani was beaming broadly and it seemed like for the first time, for her, Rahul had done something right. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora Murder Trial.
The phone offers very good performance, display and comes with a great price and promise of always having the latest Android version.
Abhik Sen tests the Norton Wi-Fi Privacy on PC as well as iOS and Android phones.
A peek inside the new HTC flagship phone.
Motorola is betting that low-cost smartphones can provide the spark to rekindle its struggling business, even as the company's ownership by Google Inc will force it to sit out of China, the world's largest smartphone market.
21 banks have launched United Payments Interface application.
Says cheap smartphone future almost here; brushes aside privacy concerns.
A Mumbai lawyer and a Beed engineer joined arrested climate activist Disha Ravi in creating a protest toolkit backing the farmers' agitation with the aim of 'tarnishing the image of India' and collaborated with pro-Khalistani elements, Delhi Police officials said on Monday.
A growing variety of smaller and cheaper Android tablets from Google to Amazon.com Inc will catch on this year with more consumers and chip away at Apple's dominance since the first iPad launched in 2010.
Experts feel that BlackBerry's efforts are too little and too late for India, which is a price sensitive market.
If you haven't already bought the Xiaomi or the Asus, you may consider Moto's One Power for its notch display, better upgrades and battery-life.
It's a honour to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley, says Sundar Pichai.
'When a person is capable of infecting 50 others, will you think about the privacy of the person or about protecting the lives of people?'
Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal on Thursday warned about a rise in cyber frauds amid a massive surge in online transactions during the second wave of the pandemic, and asserted the company is working "relentlessly" and coming out with safety features to ensure customers are not vulnerable to fraudsters. In an e-mail outreach to customers, Vittal highlighted the modus operandi being adopted by fraudsters and also drew attention to cyber frauds related to digital payments. "With the growing second wave of the pandemic and lockdowns in various parts of the country, there has been a massive increase in online transactions. "Unfortunately, there has also been a corresponding increase in cyber fraud," Vittal said.
There are, as its name suggests, 12 handis to choose from. Each time you eat this delightful, non-vegetarian mix and match, its bountiful flavours amazingly erupt inside your mouth!
A look at few of the key features from the latest Android Operating System called Lollipop or Android 5.0
How exciting is the Vivo Nex 3? Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com lets you know.
Among all types of phones, Micromax ranks third in India after Nokia and Samsung Electronics.
Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com takes a look at OnePlus's latest offering.
Analysts say that Jio's substantial slowing down in net additions is possibly because the company has dramatically reduced its bundled 4G feature phone offering, which contributed an average 30-40 per cent of its net additions.
Competition in the booming multi-billion dollar Indian smartphone market is further set to intensify with e-commerce giants Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal all set to launch Google's much-awaited sub-$100 (around Rs 6,000) handsets on Monday.
What sold the most this year? Beauty, toys and baby care, sports and fitness, television and large appliances, followed by fashion, says T E Narasimhan.
