WhatsApp is about to get a huge upgrade that’ll let you use the same account across platforms
A big leak has revealed that Facebook is working on a new WhatsApp experience which will let you use the same account to multiple phones, …
Facebook uses AI to analyze and catalog every single photo you upload
A Facebook outage that also affected Instagram and WhatsApp on Thursday revealed what may be a surprising development to some Facebook users: the company uses …
Facebook wants to let you share your WhatsApp status to Facebook and Instagram
What’s the first thing you can think of when you hear that Facebook is considering allowing WhatsApp users to share their status updates to Facebook, …
Apple, Google and Microsoft are fighting to keep your encrypted chats private
Just as more tech companies are starting to see the light when it comes to privacy and security, intelligence agencies would still like to be …
WhatsApp confirms that ads will start appearing in the app in 2020
You know that one episode of Black Mirror where everyone can’t even go to sleep without watching an ad that covers their entire bedroom? Well, …
WhatsApp vulnerability allows hackers to install spyware on your phone with one call
Facebook shared a security advisory on Monday, May 13th warning WhatsApp users that an “advanced cyber actor” has been spreading spyware through the app by …
Facebook made him a billionaire, but WhatsApp’s cofounder insists you should delete Facebook
About a year ago, WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton posted a brief message on Twitter telling people that it was time to #deletefacebook. At the time, …
iPhone users can finally protect WhatsApp chats with Face ID or Touch ID
WhatsApp is Facebook’s most secure chat app because it offers end-to-end encryption on all communications by default. In the future, Facebook plans to create a …
Mark Zuckerberg finally told us when Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp messaging will merge
A report a few days ago revealed that Mark Zuckerberg directed teams working on the various Facebook chat apps to create a unified instant messaging …
Facebook’s unified messaging plan might finally convince you to leave Facebook
A bombshell report late last week revealed that Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are considering a massive overhaul of Facebook’s instant messaging apps which include two …
Congressman: The world would be better off if Facebook didn’t buy Instagram
Do we finally have a sense of why so many key Facebook leaders, particularly co-founders of the myriad products that comprise its suite of apps, …
Facebook is planning to merge chat features across Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp
In an ambitious plan that will reportedly involve thousands of engineers, Facebook is embarking on a new initiative designed to integrate the messaging services across …
Bloomberg: Facebook’s Bitcoin rival will be used for WhatsApp money transfers
Back in May, while most Facebook-related reports still talked about the then-recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook quietly confirmed that a new unit led by former …
Facebook will let you unsend that dumb thing you just sent on Messenger
One of Gmail’s best features is the ability to unsend emails. Made a mistake? No problem, you’ve got a few seconds to undo it and …
It’s only a matter of time until ads start creeping into WhatApp’s Status feature
We’ve known for a while that WhatsApp will not remain ad-free, as reports in the past few months confirmed Facebook’s intentions to monetize its biggest …
WhatsApp is getting ads next year, but will it lose end-to-end encryption?
An interview with one of WhatsApp’s co-founders earlier this week confirmed that Brian Acton and Jan Koum left Facebook over huge differences with Mark Zuckerberg …
WhatsApp cofounder acknowledges ‘I am a sellout’ for going to work for Facebook
“I am a sellout. I acknowledge that.” WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, dressed in a WhatsApp baseball cap and T-shirt, said those words while sitting down …
Beware: Those free WhatsApp backups on Google Drive aren’t encrypted
A few days ago, we learned that Facebook and Google partnered to offer users free Google Drive backups for WhatsApp chats. That’s a great offer …
WhatsApp gets free backups on Google Drive in November
WhatsApp is one of the most popular mobile chat apps in the world with over 1.5 billion daily active users and more than 60 billion …
Hackers found a way to alter sent WhatsApp messages, but don’t freak out just yet
Facebook’s WhatsApp chat app is one of the most popular messaging applications out there. It’s available on virtually any platform, making possible encrypted chats and …
Get ready for Facebook ads in your WhatsApp chats
Purchased in 2014 for around $22 billion, WhatsApp is Facebook’s most expensive acquisition. It’s also one of Facebook’s major properties that are not bringing in …
Group FaceTime is coming this fall, but WhatsApp’s group video chat is available right now
After promising at Facebook’s FB conference a few months ago that it would be coming soon, WhatsApp announced today that starting this week, users can …
Facebook talks up end-to-end encryption, but still won’t use it on Messenger
News broke out a few days ago that the WhatsApp co-founder that’s still working for Facebook will leave the company soon over various differences with …
You don’t need to freak out about the latest WhatsApp-crashing bug
Every once in a while, smartphone users discover ways of crashing their phones, or the phones of their friends, that involve sending out a particular …
Jan Koum is leaving Facebook and WhatsApp users will end up paying the price
Jan Koum, the other Facebook-made WhatsApp co-founder that’s still working for the giant social network will leave the company over clashes with Mark Zuckerberg about …
Police extracted fingerprints from WhatsApp photos to convict drug dealers
Law enforcement officials have been complaining for quite a while now that encrypted devices and encrypted chat apps are slowing down investigations. Key evidence that …
WhatsApp cofounder and Facebook-made billionaire tells people to delete Facebook
The most important thing happening in tech right now is Facebook. The revelations coming from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie have been quite damaging for …
WhatsApp reaches deal with UK regulator over Facebook data sharing
Remember how WhatsApp vowed that it will never share user data with Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg and Co. announced the multi-billion dollar purchase of the …
BlackBerry takes all of Facebook’s instant messaging apps to court
Like seeing that tiny number that adorns an instant messaging app on your iPhone or Android to tell you that you’ve got incoming messages? How …
Deja-vu: Facebook ordered to stop sharing data with WhatsApp
Facebook said when it acquired WhatsApp back in early 2014 that it won’t be able to link WhatsApp users to their Facebook accounts. But it …
