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(Image: Delivery Ka Speed)Fast food delivery services such as Uber Eats and Mr D don't operate in South Africa's townships and rural areas.Identifying this gap, Delivery Ka Speed was founded as a simple way to get food delivered through the maze of unmapped township streets.  The company was started by Hammanskraal local Godiragetse Mogajane and launched in late July.Since then, it's processed and delivered nearly 2,500 orders via WhatsApp, using electric scooters to save fuel costs, and make a powerful brand statement.For more stories go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za.A fast food delivery company founded in Hammanskraal, to the north of Tshwane, is taking orders via WhatsApp and driving electric scooters to service communities forgotten by the likes of Uber Eats and Mr D. Delivery Ka Speed, started by 24-year-old entrepreneur Godiragetse Mogajane after noticing a gap in the market for township deliveries, was officially launched at the end of July 2021. Orders are placed via WhatsApp. Payments can be made via EFT, online card payment, card-on-delivery with Yoco machines, or cash. Drivers are dispatched to fast food joints – mainly McDonalds and KFC – on electric scooters leased by the company.In less than three months, Delivery Ka Speed has completed close to 2,500 deliveries,…

Photo: ReutersPopular messaging application, WhatsApp, is currently developing a new feature for the app which will enable users to ‘pause’ while recording voice messages.As per a scoop on WABeta, WhatsApp is working on an update to bring about an improvement in the messages feature of the app.What is special about this feature?The expected update will be “very useful” for WhatsApp users as they will no longer have to stop and delete a voice message and record a new one all over again.Instead, the new feature will enable users to pause the voice recording by tapping on a pause button and resume the recording again from the same point where they left it.The feature had been spotted during the development of WhatsApp updates for iOS. The app is now working on rolling it out for Android as well.

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has now made its helpline for reporting instances of children in distress available on Whatsapp as well. The helpline on the number +919311551393 had been launched in April during the height of the second wave as a means to primarily address the issues of children who had lost their parents to Covid-19, or had parents hospitalised for the same. Now the helpline is available also for other child-related distress calls, queries on scholarships, EWS/DG quota, government school admissions, nutrition supplement distribution at anganwadi centres, immunisation, or for registering online complaints. Now, this helpline number is also available on Whatsapp, and the commission has emphasized that it should be used to report instances of child labour and child labour to enable the rehabilitation of the affected children.

Image Source : PIXABAY Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down again for hours; services now restored Facebook on Saturday 'apologised' to its users as social media company experienced a second outage, just days after a massive outage caused in a similar fashion.  Facebook and its applications Instagram and WhatsApp as well as Messenger were down again and its users around the world again had problems accessing services for hours.  Facebook took to Twitter to announce the outage. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” it said. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.” It happened around 12 am (IST), according to downdetector, a portal that detects outages on websites. The company said that a "configuration change" had impacted users globally. ALSO READ: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp coming back online after hours of disruption Around two hours later, the company said that it has fixed the problem. "We're so sorry if you weren't able to access our products during the last couple of hours," the company said it a statement on Friday evening. "We know how much you depend on us to communicate with one another. We…

WhatsApp has been at the lead with their end to end encryption settings and backup protection across the board. However, the recent Apple Transparency policy took everyone by storm and as the launch of the iOS 15 gives over new and more important privacy features, WhatsApp has taken on itself to be at the helm of their privacy policy, a possibility that they are currently under development in passing over to the user. An attempt at a master stroke to knock the Apple upgrade out of the park, Whatsapp has passed a custom privacy setting feature to be started development on for the new update release as a white wand over to the users. The recent update showed that the users have the option to choose who they share their features with, these include Profile Photo, About and Last Seen. The options under these belts include the typical Everyone, My Contacts and Nobody; however, an exception has been introduced this time which goes by with My Contacts except. These exceptions can be selected by you to be displayed by the list of contacts and selected on who not to display it to. This feature was first extended only with Last…

Editorial Newsday 2 Hrs Ago Finance Minister Colm Imbert - SUREASH CHOLAI A BUDGET is normally the most important policy statement by a government in any given year, but Monday’s presentation by Finance Minister Colm Imbert will go down in history as the first budget to be all but eclipsed by a social media outage. Such is the new normal that many people were more preoccupied for hours with the effects of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook going dark than they were with the minister’s speech. That presentation, ironically, saw Mr Imbert place much emphasis on what he described as “digital transformation.” Free WiFi service is to be expanded to all schools, libraries, transport hubs, health sites; digital wallets will be introduced; a national digital ID system is coming. “While we might be perceived as being behind in the digital ID race, we wish to get right this digital transformation process,” Mr Imbert said. “Our objective is for TT to become a model for the region.” We have heard grand announcements like this before. Without more concrete steps being taken to address the complex and multi-faceted issues faced by citizens who now have little choice but to rely on information communications…

FP TrendingOct 07, 2021 12:03:48 ISTAfter millions of people recently faced more than 5 hours of disruption in accessing Facebook along with Whatsapp, and Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg issued an apology to users through social media. The Facebook CEO expressed his regret for the inconvenience and also informed users that the social media platforms are back online and working fine. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today — I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about,” Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook personal account. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Image: Getty. Meanwhile, in a separate blog post, Facebook officials revealed the root cause of this outage terming it as a faulty configuration change. Further in the post, Facebook claimed that this outage impacted many of the internal tools and systems of the company. Due to this disruption, the officials could not resolve the problem quickly as it got complicated. However, Facebook explained that the configuration changes on the routers caused issues that interrupted this communication. They further stated that this disruption had a cascading effect on the way the data centers communicate, leading to a halt…

WhatsApp is expected to receive a range of new tools and improved functionality. Here are some of the changes:  'View once' featureIt was reported more than a year ago that WhatsApp will be implementing ‘disappearing messages’ to be known as the ‘view once’ feature.  Users will be able to send an expiring image, video, or GIF using this functionality and once it is sent, it will disappear from the recipient’s phone once they leave the chat.  This feature is yet to be launched.READ: COVID-19 digital vaccine certificate: This is how it will work'Add Participant' to calls This new feature is active in some parts of the world already. Have you ever lost track of time and missed the meeting on WhatsApp call? You can now join a group call after it has started.  READ: South Africans react to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outageChat Transfer  You can now move your chat history from an Apple device to an Android device. This is making life a lot easier for someone who is considering upgrading their cellphone.  Tune in to the 'Breakfast with Martin Bester', weekdays from 06:00 - 09:00. Stream the show live here or download our mobile app here. Listen to the full conversation below. 

Facebook is again mired in mounting troubles that have returned it to the spotlight. On Tuesday, whistleblower Frances Haugen appeared before Congress to detail how the social media giant’s focus on profits was causing societal harm, arguing that U.S. lawmakers needed to act. Many experts agreed it was damning testimony.The two events certainly made for awkward timing. In her prepared remarks, Haugen referenced the outage, using it to illustrate not only Facebook’s flaws but its promise.Story continues below advertisement“I know that for more than five hours Facebook wasn’t used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies,” she said. “It also means that millions of small businesses weren’t able to reach potential customers and countless photos of new babies weren’t joyously celebrated by family and friends around the world.”Haugen is a Harvard-educated American — just like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. During her appearance before the Senate consumer protection subcommittee Tuesday, she focused on issues related to U.S. consumers, including the company’s own research on the negative impact of the Facebook-owned app Instagram on body image for teenagers.But, as Haugen hinted several times, Facebook’s promise and problems ripple far beyond the United States.…

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