Tomiwa Ibukunle is a 21-year old entrepreneur from Lagos, Nigeria. She started her clothing and accessories company two months ago. Her WhatsApp account is used to promote her products and receive orders from customers. She typically receives 20 orders per day. When WhatsApp experienced an outage globally for eight hours on October 5th, her orders...
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Are WhatsApp Newsletter back? Spoiler: Not really. But there’s an alternative.
Staying in permanent contact with your own customers – the dream of every company. Until 2019, many companies had therefore sent newsletters directly to their customers’ smartphones via WhatsApp. After banning WhatsApp usage for commercial purposes, WhatsAPp is now promoting its latest business message format. So is the WhatsApp newsletter back? What can the new...
Whatsapp doesn’t want to lock users out
After WhatsApp changed its data privacy rules there was a lot of critisism the way Facebook tried to push users to accept them. Those who do not agree to the new terms and conditions would experience a gradually limited service. After a pushback, Facebook changed its approach again. Users who do not agree to the...
Die Alternative zu WhatsApp Gruppen
Nutzen Sie WhatsApp Gruppen für die Kommunikation mit Kunden oder Mitgliedern? Mit der Änderung der WhatsApp Datenschutzbestimmungen laufen Sie Gefahr, viele Ihrer User zu verlieren. Wir bieten Ihnen eine Alterative an. Sie heisst qNews und ist Ihr persönlicher mobiler Newsletter. Die Nutzung ist denkbar unkompliziert: alles was Sie tun müssen, ist einen Link an Ihre...
Was bedeutet die neue WhatsApp Datenschutzrichtlinie für mich?
Fast alle Apps aktualisieren regelmäßig ihre Nutzungsbedingungen, aber selten hat eine derartige Änderung für soviel Aufregung wie die neue WhatsApp-Datenschutzrichtlinie gesorgt. Was ist an der Datenschutzrichtlinie bemerkenswert? Facebook gibt zum ersten Mal offen Details über die Erfassung und Speicherung von Benutzerdaten preis. Ihre Chats sind zwar nach wie vor End-to-End verschlüsselt, jedoch wertet Facebook eine...
What does the new WhatsApp privacy policy mean for me?
Almost all apps regularly update their terms of use, but rarely has such a change caused as much excitement as the new WhatsApp privacy policy. What is remarkable about the privacy policy? For the first time, Facebook is openly revealing details about the collection and storage of user data. Your chats are still end-to-end encrypted,...
I know who you are talking to
If you’re a WhatsApp user – like 2 billion others on the planet – your online status can be queried by third parties. This happens without you noticing anything. All that it takes is your phone number. Your online status is a source of information An investigation by Traced shows how online tools can be...
What is the best Messenger Alternative for Media-Companies?
The announced change of WhatsApp’s privacy terms has lead to an exodus of users to alternative messengers. It’s no surprise that this happened, since WhatsApp’s mother company Facebook is interested in data and will find ways to monetize it. They have done this in the past when they forced companies to use their WhatsApp Business...
Was ist die beste Messenger Alternative für Medien?
Die angekündigte Änderung der Datenschutzbestimmungen von WhatsApp hat zu einem Exodus der Benutzer zu alternativen Messengerplattformen geführt. Das is keine Überraschung, da WhatsApps Mutterunternehmen Facebook an Daten und deren Verwertung interessiert ist. Faceboook hat dies in der jüngsten Vergangenheit getan, als sie Unternehmen gezwungen haben, ihre WhatsApp Business-API zu verwenden. Im Gegenzug gaben viele Unternehmen...
WhatsApp will let you shop directly from chats | Engadget
Facebook is extending WhatsApp with shopping features. While WhatsApp has had cataloge features in the past, they appear to be limited to that what Facebook’s now previewing. It’s not yet clear, how the system works, but it could be something along these lines: A user messages a business The business replys with a link to...
