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CoinspeakerTelegram Approaching Profitability and Considering IPO after Surpassing 900 Million Users Telegram has achieved a significant milestone by surpassing 900 million monthly active users. Speculation about the launch of an IPO has arisen, fueled by Telegram's meteoric rise and financial progress. Telegram Approaching Profitability and Considering IPO after Surpassing 900 Million Users

The lawmakers explained that companies that fail to comply with the Online Safety Bill could face penalties of up to £18 million ($22.3 million) or 10% of their annual global turnover, providing a strong incentive for adherence to these safety standards. The UK’s Parliament has approved the long-awaited Online Safety Bill, marking a significant milestone in making the internet safer for everyone, especially children. The legislation, which has evolved significantly over the years, is set...

In addition to Flows, WhatsApp is taking steps to empower businesses with payment solutions.  B2B customers in India can now make payments to companies within the chat using their preferred payment methods.  In an eagerly awaited announcement, WhatsApp, a subsidiary of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) has unveiled its latest feature, “Flows”. This innovation promises to reshape the way businesses communicate with their customers and clients, offering a seamless and dynamic messaging...

WhatsApp has a user base of over 2 billion people worldwide and analysts have predicted that it will eventually take advantage of this and monetize the service. Tech giant Meta has dismissed claims that it is considering adding ads to its WhatsApp messaging app. This comes after the Financial Times reported that teams at Meta have been exploring the possibility of showing ads in lists of conversations with contacts on the WhatsApp chat screen. The report also claimed that the company was...

WhatsApp Business is introducing new paid features as it announces its monthly active users are now more than 200 million. Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp Business, a version of the instant messaging app built for small businesses, now has over 200 million users. According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, this is a 4x jump from three years ago. In 2020, 2 years after its launch, WhatsApp Business announced a monthly active user (MAU) count of 50 million. Meta is now touting the advantages of...

WhatsApp Channels will function as a one-way broadcast tool allowing admins to send photos, texts, videos, stickers, and polls. Facebook parent Meta (NASDAQ: FB) has recently confirmed that it will soon debut its broadcasting feature Channels for its most-popular messaging service WhatsApp. Speaking on the development on Thursday, June 8, Meta said that the new Channels feature is similar to a “private broadcast service” wherein individuals and organizations can send messages as well as...

TON may be the highest gainer for today, having surged by over 17%, but it is not the only coin surging at the moment.It appears that the Telegram-based Toncoin (TON) cryptocurrency is riding on the waves of rival WhatsApp’s recent misfortune. This follows after the cryptocurrency started seeing gains following the earlier crash of WhatsApp messenger.  As of publication, Toncoin (TON) is up by over 17% in the last 24 hours, per CoinMarketCap data.It is noteworthy, however, that the impact of...

WhatsApp says its services have been restored after an outage that impacted millions of its users across the globe.Popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp has restored services following a major outage. On Tuesday, the Meta-owned cross-platform instant messenger suffered a global outage that affected millions of its users. Following a string of user complaints regarding sending and receiving messages, Meta also later confirmed the downtime, saying: “We’re aware that some people are...

WhatsApp has launched a new cryptocurrency-based pilot that will allow a select number of people in America to send and receive crypto funds to each other. The program is being powered by Novi, the new Facebook (or Meta) cryptocurrency wallet that has gone through a thousand name changes and struggled to get off the ground since being announced in the summer of 2019. The Novi Wallet Is Finally Launching Itself Novi was officially launched as a pilot roughly six weeks...

Thanks to the partnership between Zawadi and Eventbrite, event organizers will have a safer and faster way to deliver tokenized tickets to buyers.A mobile ticket delivery platform Zawadi announced its partnership with the U.S. event management and ticketing website Eventbrite. The integration means event managers who are using Eventbrite can now give out tokenized tickets to their participants through social messaging apps as are WhatsApp, Facebook‘s Messenger, and Line Messenger.As per their...