Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The new feature, if launched, would mean all users of WhatsApp are shown ads, which would appear next to chats with friends and relations....
...the EU’s executive body, is investigating whether iMessage should be on a list of services that must comply with the new Digital Markets Act, and so be able to connect seamlessly with competitors such as WhatsApp...
...Brussels’ battle with the two US companies over Apple’s iMessage chat app and Microsoft’s Bing search engine comes ahead of Wednesday’s publication of the first list of services to be regulated by the Digital...
...(The answer to that question is: four years later, screenshots of my WhatsApps being sent to the police.) I decided to blunder in with a case of mistaken identity....
...chat with the company....
...No link to Gazprom is mentioned, aside from some video messages shared to this Fakel chat group late on December 31 last year....
...No figures are given for the number who pay to chat with customers. Convincing users to pay for something that is free elsewhere is difficult. Raising demand requires additional services....
...It is a reversal for Apple, which has previously held back on adopting the Rich Communication Services standard, an industry format that supports functions such as group chats and message delivery status...
...Recent examples includeMicrosoft’s acquisition of Luxembourg-based video chat app Skype for$8.5bn in 2011 and Apple’s purchase of UK-based music recognition appShazam for $400mn in 2018.Still regulators...
...Fintech Revolut is taking small steps, having added apps for messaging (Revolut Chat) and booking trips (Revolut Stays)....
...Meta, which owns WhatsApp as well as Facebook and Instagram, is also developing an assistant that can sit within a group chat so, if there is a discussion about going on holiday, for example, it can present...
...Enter WhatsApp, an app that excels at both social chat and easy-to-set-up messaging groups....
...The temperature on the WhatsApp chat plummeted. It was pretty simple, she said. Taking friends to a posh restaurant with your dad was . . . kind of creepy. And if not creepy then embarrassing....
...Several of them also used the disappearing-messages function in their WhatsApp chats....
...Meta’s suggestion that AI personas can help its users in messaging apps WhatsApp and Messenger has also received little positive feedback....
...Academics in the future will get to pore over day-to-day discussions during a crisis that would once have been undocumented chats in corridors — including the crass jokes....
...Elsewhere in Asia Speaking of ecommerce and social media, WhatsApp has just launched an in-chat payments service in India. Meta appears to be finally getting around to monetising its messages app....
...Record a message here: http://sayhi.chat/15xxg You can also email us at ftweekendpodcast@ft.com, tweet us @ftweekendpod, or message Lilah on Instagram @lilahrap....
...They monitor social networks, but also private chat apps like Telegram and WhatsApp, and they just kind of look for signals or operations of what they think is disinformation....
...It took Rohrer a month to “trick” the interface so users could chat with the AI. He built some characters for people to talk to. He also allowed users to create their own....
...Katie MartinSo is your hunch that this is the year that the regulators bite, or based on your chat with this expert, you feel like, nah, this is just gonna keep simmering?...
...And that’s not just to be seen, ’cause I’m here and I’m working, and maybe I get an informal chat with you over a cup of tea, but it’s also if I can learn from you....
...If “other closed forums” included Bloomberg Terminal chats, this would be indistinguishable from a “normal” run on Wall Street....
...“Let’s take this offline” is appearing in group WhatsApp chats....
...And they fear that the current sweep will uncover chats that should have been preserved....
International Edition