{"id":175112,"date":"2015-12-17T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=175112"},"modified":"2015-12-17T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T11:39:41","slug":"whatsapp-messaging-suspended-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/12\/whatsapp-messaging-suspended-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp messaging suspended in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mobile phone companies in Brazil have been ordered by a court to impose a block of the popular WhatsApp smartphone application for two days.<\/p>\n
A court in Sao Paulo state made the order because it said WhatsApp had repeatedly failed to co-operate in a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n
It is not clear if mobile companies will fully comply with the order.<\/p>\n
Facebook owns the app. Its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he was “stunned” by the “extreme” ruling.<\/p>\n
WhatsApp is reported to be the most used application in Brazil, with about 93 million users.<\/p>\n
The TechCrunch website says it is used by 93% of the country’s internet population and is especially popular among young people and the poor who take advantage of its free text message and internet telephone service.<\/p>\n
It says Brazilians spend almost twice as much time on social media as Americans.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mobile phone companies in Brazil have been ordered by a court to impose a block of the popular WhatsApp smartphone application for two days. A court in Sao Paulo state made the order because it said WhatsApp had repeatedly failed to co-operate in a criminal investigation. It is not clear if mobile companies will fully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":62524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[18,38],"yoast_head":"\n