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Retail Asia09/04/2024

WhatsApp keeps rolling out new features regularly, and now it seems it is working on making it easier for everyone to open and share photos. According to WABetaInfo, a reliable source for WhatsApp updates, the Meta-owned messaging app is widely releasing a feature to quickly open the photo library. While the official changelog doesn’t offer much […]

Retail Asia05/04/2023

It seems like ages ago when WhatsApp faced intense criticism about its lack of security features. That, however, isn’t something that can be said in today’s reality, where WhatsApp is one of the most feature-rich messaging apps on the market. While end-to-end encryption and sweet features such as spam prevention are awesome, there are always ways to […]

Retail Asia03/11/2020

Google has started rolling out an update for the Google Messages app that might make it faster to find certain messages. The update adds a new feature that places SMS messages into one of five different categories: personal, transactions, OTP (one-time passwords), offers, and more. The feature can be enabled or disabled through the use of a toggle switch found […]

Retail Asia27/05/2019

The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has reported a 44% year-on-year increase in net profit for the first three months of 2019 to 6.7 billion pesos ($129.1 million), partly as a result of strong data revenue growth. The company reported revenue for the quarter of 36 billion pesos, up 13% year-on-year. Growth was mainly fueled by increasing […]

Retail Asia16/04/2019

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Juniper Research is forecasting that total operator revenues from A2P (Application-to-Person) messaging services will reach $62 billion by 2023, up from $43 billion in 2019. This represents a growth of 42% over the next 4 years. The research firm also claimed that revenue growth will be driven by operator efforts in mitigating messaging fraud over […]

Retail Asia16/02/2017

Despite the great strides being made to bring mobility services to the global population, recent research indicates that nearly half of mobile users worldwide still only use their devices to make calls and send SMS. The consumer research from GSMA Intelligence, covering 56 markets collectively representing 80% of the world’s population, found that 47% of […]

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WhatsApp to roll out new photo library shortcut for faster sharing

WhatsApp may soon allow you to lock specific chats

Update rolling out now adds useful new feature to Google Messages app

Globe Q1 profit grows 44%

Telcos to use AI to fight SMS fraud and drive A2P messaging revenue

47% of mobile users still only call and text