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Facebook poisons the acquisition well

LatAm startup Vambe sees ARR skyrocket after pivot to conversational AI

Who you gonna call Good question

Tencentbacked Hike once Indias answer to WhatsApp has given up on messaging

Yesmobo: Indias Only Whatsapp Marketing Startup

Zimbabwes government faces off against its tech community over internet restrictions

Messenger celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and a plan to become the connective tissue for realtime experiences

Antisocial media

Meta and Googles Gradient back LatAm startup OlaClick

Reliances financial services unit to offer insurance merchant lending

Charles raises 64M seed to bring conversational commerce to WhatsApp

Meta starts testing endtoend encryption for individual Messenger chats

Social app IRL lays off 25 of team says it has enough cash to last well into 2024

States to launch antitrust investigation into big tech companies reports say

Omnichannel customer messaging platform Superchat raises 156M round led by Blossom

DealShare raises 21 million to expand its ecommerce platform to 100 Indian cities and towns

Facebook WhatsApp Google and other internet giants comply with Indias IT rules

Telegram nearing 500 million users to begin monetizing the app

Its still easy to find coronavirus mask ads on Facebook

UKs antitrust watchdog orders Facebook to sell Giphy

Facebook addresses political controversy in India monetization opportunities startup investments

Zendesk acquires Smooch doubles down on support via messaging apps like WhatsApp

WhatsApp now allows Singaporebased users to pay businesses within the app

Decrypted: With more SolarWinds fallout Biden picks his cybersecurity team

Grouphug is a stealthmode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups

Facebook is weaponizing security to erode privacy

The best video chat apps to turn social distancing into distant socializing

How Techstars Meta helped profitable LatAm startup Mercately raise a 26M seed

Meta apps experience global outage

US and European comms platform Infobip acquires VoIP provider Peerless Network for 200M

AtomChat secures new funding to capitalize on Latin American trend of sales through messaging

Federal court rules WhatsApp and Facebooks malware exploit case against NSO Group can proceed

Brands building for scale should look to hypercultural Latinx consumers

India lifts WhatsApp payment curbs

Safaricom rolls out Bonga social networking platform to augment MPesa

Messaging app JusTalk is spilling millions of unencrypted messages

WhatsApps Brian Acton to talk Signal Foundation and leaving Facebook at Disrupt SF

Dont break up big tech regulate data access says EU antitrust chief

State attorneys general to launch antitrust investigation into big tech companies reports say

First major GDPR decisions looming on Twitter and Facebook

Indias Times Internet isnt ceding ground to US rivals Facebook and Google

Facebooks election interference problem exponentially worse on eve of midterms study suggests

WhatsApp brings its Business API to the cloud to speed adoption

Mobile spyware maker leaks 2 million records

Google asks a judge to dismiss Texas antitrust lawsuit about its ad business

Instagram is testing an inapp feature that will notify users of service outages

Daily Crunch: WhatsApp launches payments

US tech giants say Indian panels recommended competition act absolutist and regressive

Microsoft files amicus brief with other tech giants in case against dangerous NSO Group

Social Bluebook was hacked exposing 217000 influencers accounts