All you need to know about Baba Ramdev 'Kimbho' messeging app
All you need to know about Baba Ramdev 'Kimbho' messeging app
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After rapidly losing ground  and taking back their new messaging app amid obvious security flaws, billionaire Acharya Balkrishna and yoga guru Baba Ramdev are about to plan a formal release of the Kimbho messenger app within upcoming weeks . Now Yogi Team tried to create a challenge to Facebook Inc's dominant WhatsApp.

"We pledge not to launch the app until a team of expert hackers and security specialists plug all the security and privacy loopholes," Balkrishna said in a phone interview as he promised more advanced features than his competitors quoted by NDTV.

The sudden withdrawal of the app, whose name translates as "what's up" in Sanskrit, a day after its release in May was an unusual slow down for Balkrishna and Baba Ramdev.

As we know that The duo built Patanjali Ayurved into a business with $1.6 billion of annual revenue by selling soap, skin cream and instant noodles that grips the home-grown, all-natural-and-wholesome article of faith. Still, in this short moments it was available the app racked up 300,000 downloads.

The home-grown character that helped its consumer products succeed is a central part proposition behind the messaging app. WhatsApp already dominates India, gathering more than 230 million users and pushing into electronic payments, a fast expanding sector in the world's fastest-growing key economy.

 It is noted that Kimbho was released on app stores so that a limited number of users could test features such as text messaging, stickers and video calling but Fuelled by the brand appeal of its high profile supporters Baba Ramdev has more than 10 million followers from corner to corner of social networks -- the app proved so well-liked and its cloud servers crashed.

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