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This will enable Singapore residents with a WhatsApp number registered here to pay using credit cards, debit cards or PayNow.

The move is part of a cost-cutting push that will eventually eliminate 10,000 positions at the company, as announced in March.

The complaints on Wednesday accuse Facebook of buying up rivals, focusing on its acquisition of Instagram and Whatsapp.

JPMorgan’s decision to force someone of Koo’s stature off the trading floor while it looks into the matter is indicative of the seriousness with which banks are grappling with the profusion of new communication platforms.

SINGAPORE (Jan 31): More than one million new people go online daily and 45% of the world – about 3.5 billion people annually – are logging in to their favourite social platforms, representing almost 9% increase y-o-y, according to the Digital 2019 re

(Sept 11): DBS Group Holdings, Southeast Asia’s biggest bank, unveiled a service that will allow wealthy clients to interact with their relationship managers on WeChat and WhatsApp.

LONDON (March 27): UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp messaging system should open its encryption to security services and urged online companies to be more aggressive in shutting down sites exploited by terrorists.

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (March 8): The Central Intelligence Agency’s hackers have developed tools letting them break into devices from iPhones and Android phones to Samsung “smart” televisions to monitor conversations and messages, according to Wik

SINGAPORE (June 20): UOB Kay Hian has released a review of Liberty Wireless’s new mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) branded as Circles.Life, while reiterating its ‘underweight’ rating on the telco industry.