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The Zoho co-founder’s attempt to build a WhatsApp competitor has captured the imagination of the nationalist Indian. Emotions aside, the most likely outcome is that Zoho’s other products will start selling more.

Zoho’s instant messenger Arattai has been the talk of the town these past 10 days or so. From our piece published earlier this week:
Zoho’s instant messaging app Arattai witnessed a 100x jump in traffic in the past three days, co-founder Sridhar Vembu said on Monday in a post on X. The new sign-ups crossed 350,000 from 3,000 a day. The Chennai-headquartered software firm intends to add more infrastructure to the Arattai app, which is seen as a potential homegrown peer to WhatsApp. “We are adding infrastructure on an emergency basis for another potential 100x peak surge. That is how …
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