India s Hike Messenger is now officially shut down ANI | Updated: Jan 19, 2021 22:49 IST
Washington [US], January 19 (ANI): Indian freeware, cross-platform instant messaging service, Hike Messenger that included a wide variety of fun Indian stickers, chat backgrounds, and much more has now been officially shut down.
As per the Mashable, the shutdown of its operations was recently announced by the company s CEO, Kavin Bharti Mittal. The app has also been removed from Google Playstore and Apple s App Store.
Confirming the news Mittal tweeted Today we re announcing that we will be sunsetting StickerChat in Jan 21. We thank you all for giving us your trust.
Facebook-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp recently updated its terms of service and privacy policy, which come into effect from February 8. The new terms detail how the messaging platform will use user data and share it with its parent company Facebook. However, this raises privacy concerns for a person using WhatsApp as it will be able to share data including, IP address, browser details, location, phone number, signal strength, battery level, and more with Facebook and its subsidiaries. Users have till February 8, 2021 to accept the revised terms and policy or they will not be able to use WhatsApp services. In light of these developments, Business Standard lists three WhatsApp alternative that are free to use: