WhatsApp said it has appointed former Amazon executive Manesh Mahatme as a director to lead the growth of its payments business in India, according to PTI report. In this new role, Mahatme will focus on enhancing the payments experience for users, scaling the service offering and work towards contributing to WhatsApp’s vision of digital and financial…
WhatsApp has named Paresh B Lal as its grievance officer for India on its website, according to PTI report. The move comes in the backdrop of the new IT rules coming into effect last week that require significant social media intermediaries – those with other 50 lakh users – to appoint a grievance officer, nodal officer and a chief compliance officer. These personnel are required to…
Samsung India announced that it has partnered with leading social media and technology firm Facebook, to train offline retailers go digital. The company said that the initiative will enable thousands of the company’s offline partners become part of online ecosystem and reach out to a larger base of consumers, in a world swiftly moving digital.…
Days after Reliance and Facebook signed the $5.7 billion deal, Mukesh Ambani’s ambitious project JioMart has gone live on WhatsApp. Currently in its pilot phase, the service is live only in some areas of Mumbai including Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan. The company plans to roll out the service in other parts of the country…
WhatsApp’s chief business officer Neeraj Arora, on Monday, announced his decision to quit the company, marking another high-profile exit at the Facebook-owned messaging app. Arora has been serving the company since 2011 and through Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition in 2014. Earlier this year in April, WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum left the company due to conflicts with Facebook on WhatsApp’s…