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New Whatsapp app allows group calls to up to 32 people from your desktop

The social media company aims to position WhatsApp as a platform with a fully end-to-end encrypted messaging experience that allows cross-platform communication

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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of Meta Platforms, has launched a new WhatsApp app for Windows. It allows users to do group video calls with up to 8 people and audio calls with up to 32 people from their desktop computers. 

Meta said WhatsApp started as a mobile app, and its roots in the mobile ecosystem continued to remain strong, but with hundreds of millions of people using WhatsApp on computers and tablets, the company is focused on making the messaging and calling experience across devices even better. The new WhatsApp app for Windows desktop loads faster and improves

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