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Meta Platforms on Tuesday began rolling out its payments tool to small and medium-sized firms through its WhatsApp messaging platform in Brazil, part of Meta's strategy to use the Brazilian market as a key test space for business messaging. The development of business messaging has become all the more urgent as Meta's core advertising business has stalled. The service, provided in partnership with payment processors including MercadoLibre's Mercado Pago, Itau Unibanco's Rede and Cielo, will allow WhatsApp users to make purchases and pay directly through the app with credit and debit cards from Mastercard and Visa, Meta said in a statement. The tool will initially be available for some merchants that use WhatsApp Business. Clients of WhatsApp's API, which mainly serves large b...

WhatsApp took a cue from Snapchat and added the ability to view once The feature allows users to send photos and videos that can only be seen once—they self-destruct after that. It is a handy option to have, especially when sharing private and sensitive photos. But the Meta-owned company made a major oversight in how it implemented the feature: you could take screenshots of view once media, thereby defeating their entire purpose. A year later, in August 2022, Mark Zuckerberg announced screenshot blocking was coming up soon for self-destructing media. The feature is now showing up for some beta testers of the app. WhatsApp has released a new version of its view once media viewer with built-in screenshot blocking for selected beta users. Like on Google Pay and other apps, when you t...

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WhatsApp Rolls Out Business Payment Tool In Brazil

Whatsapp rolls out new feature that blocks capturing of photos and videos