Social media users are leaving traditional providers in droves in favor of more independent platforms over fears of unwarranted data collection, censorship, and refusal of service.
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Regulators around the globe are increasingly turning hostile to the social media behemoth.
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There are multiple ways to approach digital payments, and Facebook wants to cover them all.
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Facebook is determined not to take “no” for an answer when it comes to fintech.
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WhatsApp’s payment features have been suspended in Brazil less than one month after the Facebook-owned app rolled them out.
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WhatsApp has announced instant in-app fiat payments for over 120 million users in Brazil.
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Ex-Cambridge Analytica executive Brittany Kaiser discusses issues of global data protection crisis in an interview with Cointelegraph.
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Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of cloud-based messenger Telegram, says that Apple’s cloud service iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool.”
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British decentralized communication startup New Vector has raised $8.5 million to promote an alternative messaging protocol.
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The integration of DLT technology into messenger apps is expected to drive mainstream crypto adoption, but possibly at the expense of centralization.
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Binance unveils its own project to rival Facebook’s Libra, Bitcoin’s dominance may not be what we all thought, and WhatsApp plots digital payments launch.
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Binance launched its own stablecoin project, but faces stiff competition from Libra and the Chinese government in its quest...
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp is in early talks with local firms to launch digital payments service in Indonesia.
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Social media giant Facebook plans to launch its own payments-focused cryptocurrency “Globalcoin” in 2020.
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A new strain of Trojan malware for Android phones is targeting global users of top crypto apps such as Coinbase, BitPay and Bitcoin Wallet.
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