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Steven Senne/AP As SVB careened towards catastrophe, some 50 founders, VCs, economists and comms experts gathered in a WhatsApp group to draft a memo calling for urgent preservation of its deposits for the sake of the broader economy. Then they sent it to Washington. Just after 5:30 pm Pacific on Saturday, a memo started making the rounds among policymaker staff. Called “United States Cascade Bank Failure Scenario,” the private document laid out the case for why the U.S. government needed to take “decisive action” to avoid a continued bank run in the wake of the abrupt closure of Silicon Valley Bank. “Today, most Americans assume the SVB failure is contained to the tech economy, but this is not true,” the document said, before laying out a primer on how SVB collapsed and the dire consequences for inaction — insolvency for regional banks, massive job cuts and the loss of banking services for wide swaths of the country, far from Silicon Valley. “The risks to the U.S. economy could be sudden, severe, and extensive,” it warned. Whereas some prominent voices in tech took to Twitter for all-caps concern tweets, the memo was unsigned, but it was authored by a coterie of

Former BBC staffers have expressed concerns about the leaked WhatsApp and email messages suggesting the corporation bowed to pressure from No 10 to avoid using the word “lockdown” at the start of the pandemic and to turn up criticism of Labour.Rob Burley, a former senior editor in charge of political programmes, described the messages as “very troubling” while veteran BBC journalist John Simpson stressed that it was “not our job to do Downing Street’s bidding”.The messages revealed by the Guardian on Tuesday date from 2020 to 2022, and show the BBC coming under pressure from No 10 over the corporation’s political reporting.One email shows a senior editor informing correspondents that Downing Street was requesting them not to use the word “lockdown” in relation to the shutdown ordered by Boris Johnson on 23 March 2020 – the day the first lockdown was announced.Another WhatsApp message asked correspondents to “turn up the scepticism a bit” towards Labour after a complaint from Downing Street that the corporation was not reflecting the “mess” of the opposition’s call for plan B Covid measures.Burley said the messages were “very troubling evidence of the way that BBC executives operate in relation to government and how they put

Merchants can easily initiate a payment request as a WhatsApp message to their customers and get real-time notifications when payments are made by integrating WhatsApp Payments into WATI's platform.WATI's flow builder provides seamless integration with WhatsApp payments in a few easy clicks. WATI (WhatsApp Team Inbox), an end-to-end WhatsApp API solution for SMBs, today announced its partnership with one of the largest aggregators of EV chargers across India, Pulse Energy. WATI has built a custom automated flow for Pulse Energy, using its low-code flow builder and out-of-the-box integration with WhatsApp payments. According to the IVCA-EY-Induslaw report, EVs account for 1.1 percent of total vehicle sales and are expected to account for 39 percent of total automotive sales by CY27. However, there are only 1,742 charging stations at present and the number is expected to increase to 100,000 units by 2027 to meet growing demand. At present, the EV charging process is primarily app driven and a large majority of these users are non-English speakers. In order to align itself with India's EV mission and accelerate growth, Pulse Energy launched a project to decipher how to reduce the cognitive load required to start and stop any charging station across the country.

F1 drivers are among the most popular and recognizable athletes in the world. Throughout the year, they travel to different places around the world, where they drive the fastest cars around the most exciting circuits and entertain millions of fans. However, when George Russell revealed what goes on in their WhatsApp group, it becomes evident that they are human after all! Drivers may clash on the track, develop rivalries or even take verbal jabs at each other but when it comes to issues that affect the whole of F1, they come together. Hence, it’s only natural that they have a WhatsApp group of their own, where they talk about various things and also share banter. George Russell is the type of guy who posts shirtless photos on social media 😜😁 pic.twitter.com/aXWDZBmVgn — Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) July 19, 2022 In 2022, Russell confirmed the existence of this group, and in a recent interview, the Brit also shared what kind of content is passed around in it. While mostly, they share banter, there are times when an incident that occurred on track makes them talk about it extensively. They also share jokes and memes about the same, which makes the

The Whatsapp logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken November 26, 2019. — Reuters Meta-owned WhatsApp is bringing a new update to make it easier for people in large group chats to identify other users, WaBetaInfo reported Tuesday. According to the app-tracking website, the instant messaging app is rolling out a new update by bringing the version up to 2.23.6.12.The new update — called profile icons — is available for some lucky beta testers in the group chats. This feature was released for the beta version of iOS but was under development for Android. Users need to open a group chat to check if this feature is available in their WhatsApp accounts. This would allow users to easily identify other users, making it easier for them to participate in group conversations.  — WaBetaInfoGroup chats have usually different people with the same names and it can get confusing at times who is referring to who. But users can now differentiate quickly between different members by checking the profile icon. "In particular, when a group member doesn’t have a profile photo or it is hidden, WhatsApp will display a default empty profile photo: this default icon is easily recognisable due to its unique characteristics, including its colour, which

Corporate compliance chiefs and general counsel are bombarding outside attorneys with questions about how to design a policy to retain employee messaging on encrypted software, white-collar lawyers say.The intensifying dilemma for companies is fueled by recently stepped up Justice Department pressure in white collar investigations to produce encrypted chats on apps like Signal and WhatsApp. The enforcement push follows a wave of civil settlements on Wall Street over bankers’ inaccessible messages.“To the extent this was a hot topic, it’s going to be even hotter,” said Brian R. Michael, a Los Angeles-based partner in Morrison Foerster’s investigations and white collar defense practice.Clear solutions remain elusive. A DOJ policy announced March 3 directed prosecutors to levy steeper penalties against firms under investigation that are unable to preserve workers’ business-related messages. Companies are struggling to determine if the benefits of obtaining such information, which is often buried in unmonitored devices or gets deleted by disappearing software, are worth the delicate, expensive effort. ‘Brick Walls’Michael, formerly chief compliance officer for 21st Century Fox, said people in his prior role were already getting C-suite resistance about what’s feasible before the DOJ formalized its policy. But in-house lawyers and compliance officers now have a “compelling data

WhatsApp is working on several new features to launch in future app updates. The instant messaging application is developing features to improve the user interface and privacy in all its versions, including Android, iOS or Desktop. Some upcoming WhatsApp updates include 21 new keyboard emojis and a new approval feature for group chat admins. Wabetainfo, a site that tracks all developments on WhatsApp, reveals that the platform is testing 21 new emojis for its Android beta users. With the latest batch of emojis, users won't have to search for a separate keyboard to send these emojis in chat. Additionally, WhatsApp is also working on a new feature that will allow users who are group admins to approve new participants. This feature will give group admins more control as they can limit or control the number of people who can join a group and manage group chat more efficiently. Let's check when WhatsApp plans to release these upcoming features and how they will work. WhatsApp approval feature for group chat adminsAccording to the report, the new approval feature is available to test with the latest version of WhatsApp for iOS and Android. The recent approval feature will be helpful for users

In idle moments of delusion, I have sometimes wondered if I have what it takes to be a politician. Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages prove without doubt I do not.Leaked messages that Hancock wrote as UK health secretary during the pandemic have appeared almost every day this month in London’s Daily Telegraph. They are riveting. I seize on each new batch in the way I imagine Charles Dickens fans rushed to read new instalments of The Pickwick Papers. As a result, I have been reminded of the weapons-grade levels of self-promotion and basic bastardry that pervade the upper reaches of political life.“I must own this,” Hancock told an adviser early in the pandemic, as the pair plotted to ensure he took maximum credit for a vaccine roll-out that other ministers were helping to develop.“It MUST NOT be Alok!” Hancock fretted some time later, having learnt that news was about to break of a vaccine breakthrough that could have left him overshadowed by the then business secretary, Alok Sharma. “I know, I’m worried,” replied his adviser.Hancock also passed on the happy news that the Covid crisis could propel his career “into the next league”. And he discussed the idea of threatening to

WhatsApp scammers could impersonate your family members and friends, and even make it look like their phone number to deceive you, but there are ways you can spot them. Don't use WhatsApp again until you know about these new messaging threats (Image: Getty)Cybersecurity experts have warned millions of WhatsApp users to be alert, as fraudsters frequently target users on the popular messaging service. There are a number of different ways in which these criminals can target you, and in some cases, people have been conned out of thousands of pounds. As these scammers use increasingly sophisticated tactics, Cybersecurity experts from VPN Overview have described the various methods they employ to target online users, how to recognise WhatsApp scams and how to prevent them.“Friend In Need” scamsThese are one of the most common scams out there, and as the name suggests, this WhatsApp fraud involves cybercriminals pretending to be someone you know.The conmen (or women) would pose as friends or family members facing an urgent financial emergency, because of which victims could lose thousands of pounds.They often use familiar profile pictures and information from social media to deceive victims and then explain that they're messaging from a different number than usual

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a new "multi-selection" feature for messages on Windows beta. Beta testers can now select multiple messages within a conversation and then choose to delete or forward them all at once on WhatsApp for Windows, reports WABetaInfo. Technology IANS| Mar 12, 2023 01:44 PM IST San Francisco, March 12: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a new "multi-selection" feature for messages on Windows beta. Beta testers can now select multiple messages within a conversation and then choose to delete or forward them all at once on WhatsApp for Windows, reports WABetaInfo. With the new feature, users can select multiple messages after clicking on "Select" within the context menu of a conversation. Also, they can click anywhere within a conversation and then the "Select messages" option will appear. WhatsApp Feature Update: Meta-Owned Messaging App Working on Option To Let Users Share Up to 100 Media Within Chats on iOS Beta. The new feature is useful as earlier users had to select messages one by one and delete or forward them individually. However, now, by selecting multiple messages at once, users can save their time and effort. WhatsApp Screenshot Blocking Feature Now Available on Android Beta: Report.