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WhatsApp Launches New Year 2026 Features With New Stickers, Video Call Effects and Status Tools
- Tuesday December 30, 2025
- Written by Sucharita Ganguly, Edited by David Delima
WhatsApp has announced New Year 2026 features as it prepares for its busiest day of the year, when message and call volumes are claimed to exceed its daily average of over 100 billion messages and 2 billion calls. The update includes a 2026 sticker pack, new video call effects like fireworks and confetti, animated confetti reactions, and animated s...
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Researchers Claim to Uncover Billions of WhatsApp-Registered Phone Numbers Using Automation Techniques
- Friday November 21, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Ketan Pratap
WhatsApp’s contact-discovery flaw let researchers match 3.5 billion phone numbers to active accounts. By exploiting the absence of rate limits, they checked vast number ranges to see which were registered. They also found that many users exposed their profile photos and About texts publicly. The team even identified millions of accounts in countr...
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Can Made-In-India Arattai Replace WhatsApp? 5 Features That Set It Apart
- Friday October 3, 2025
- India News | Edited by NDTV News Desk
For years, WhatsApp held an unshakable monopoly in the messaging space, with over half a billion active users in India. Now, Arattai, a made-in-India messaging app developed by Zoho Corp, is emerging as a tough competitor.
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Meta Previews AI Chatbots for WhatsApp and Messenger Along With AI Tools for Photos, Emoji Stickers
- Friday June 9, 2023
- Reuters
Meta on Thursday previewed new tools relying on AI that are in development, including ChatGPT-like chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp that offer different 'personas'. The firm is also working on a feature or Instagram to modify images using text prompts and generate emoji stickers using AI for its chat apps.
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www.gadgets360.com
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Instagram Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Active Users, Over 2 Billion Using WhatsApp Daily, Meta Says
- Thursday October 27, 2022
- Alex Barinka, Bloomberg
Instagram has crossed the 2 billion monthly active users mark, the company announced on Wednesday. The company's Facebook service has 2.96 billion users while more than 2 billion people now use WhatsApp. Meta’s total monthly users for its family of apps number 3.71 billion worldwide, according to the company.
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Is India at Risk of Chinese-Style Surveillance Capitalism?: Andy Mukherjee
- Tuesday August 9, 2022
- Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg
India’s privacy debate has seen major changes in the last few years. The government has recently scraped the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with “a comprehensive legal framework”. This may bring little cheer to Big Tech if the replacement turns out to be even more draconian. Twitter and Meta’s WhatsApp have already...
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www.gadgets360.com
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On Facebook Outage Day, Signal vs Instagram Snowballs. It Happened On Twitter
- Tuesday October 5, 2021
- Offbeat | Written by Sanya Jain
Facebook suffered a six-hour outage on Monday that spanned its WhatsApp messenger and photo-sharing platform Instagram, shutting out many of its 2.7 billion users worldwide.
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www.ndtv.com
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Facebook Blames 'Faulty Configuration Change' for Nearly Six-Hour Outage
- Tuesday October 5, 2021
- Reuters
Facebook blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
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www.gadgets360.com
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Facebook Says Cause Of 6-Hour Outage Was Faulty Configuration Changes
- Tuesday October 5, 2021
- World News | Reuters
Facebook Inc on Monday cited faulty configuration changes on its routers as the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services.
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www.ndtv.com
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WhatsApp Launches New Year 2026 Features With New Stickers, Video Call Effects and Status Tools
- Tuesday December 30, 2025
- Written by Sucharita Ganguly, Edited by David Delima
WhatsApp has announced New Year 2026 features as it prepares for its busiest day of the year, when message and call volumes are claimed to exceed its daily average of over 100 billion messages and 2 billion calls. The update includes a 2026 sticker pack, new video call effects like fireworks and confetti, animated confetti reactions, and animated s...
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www.gadgets360.com
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Researchers Claim to Uncover Billions of WhatsApp-Registered Phone Numbers Using Automation Techniques
- Friday November 21, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Ketan Pratap
WhatsApp’s contact-discovery flaw let researchers match 3.5 billion phone numbers to active accounts. By exploiting the absence of rate limits, they checked vast number ranges to see which were registered. They also found that many users exposed their profile photos and About texts publicly. The team even identified millions of accounts in countr...
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www.gadgets360.com
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Can Made-In-India Arattai Replace WhatsApp? 5 Features That Set It Apart
- Friday October 3, 2025
- India News | Edited by NDTV News Desk
For years, WhatsApp held an unshakable monopoly in the messaging space, with over half a billion active users in India. Now, Arattai, a made-in-India messaging app developed by Zoho Corp, is emerging as a tough competitor.
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www.ndtv.com
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Meta Previews AI Chatbots for WhatsApp and Messenger Along With AI Tools for Photos, Emoji Stickers
- Friday June 9, 2023
- Reuters
Meta on Thursday previewed new tools relying on AI that are in development, including ChatGPT-like chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp that offer different 'personas'. The firm is also working on a feature or Instagram to modify images using text prompts and generate emoji stickers using AI for its chat apps.
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www.gadgets360.com
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Instagram Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Active Users, Over 2 Billion Using WhatsApp Daily, Meta Says
- Thursday October 27, 2022
- Alex Barinka, Bloomberg
Instagram has crossed the 2 billion monthly active users mark, the company announced on Wednesday. The company's Facebook service has 2.96 billion users while more than 2 billion people now use WhatsApp. Meta’s total monthly users for its family of apps number 3.71 billion worldwide, according to the company.
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www.gadgets360.com
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Is India at Risk of Chinese-Style Surveillance Capitalism?: Andy Mukherjee
- Tuesday August 9, 2022
- Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg
India’s privacy debate has seen major changes in the last few years. The government has recently scraped the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with “a comprehensive legal framework”. This may bring little cheer to Big Tech if the replacement turns out to be even more draconian. Twitter and Meta’s WhatsApp have already...
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www.gadgets360.com
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On Facebook Outage Day, Signal vs Instagram Snowballs. It Happened On Twitter
- Tuesday October 5, 2021
- Offbeat | Written by Sanya Jain
Facebook suffered a six-hour outage on Monday that spanned its WhatsApp messenger and photo-sharing platform Instagram, shutting out many of its 2.7 billion users worldwide.
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www.ndtv.com
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Facebook Blames 'Faulty Configuration Change' for Nearly Six-Hour Outage
- Tuesday October 5, 2021
- Reuters
Facebook blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
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www.gadgets360.com
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Facebook Says Cause Of 6-Hour Outage Was Faulty Configuration Changes
- Tuesday October 5, 2021
- World News | Reuters
Facebook Inc on Monday cited faulty configuration changes on its routers as the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services.
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www.ndtv.com