“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 with a Forbes reporter in the cafe of the Four Seasons hotel in Palo Alto as part of an interview offering something we rarely get a look at. The deepest …
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 if you have a ton of content saved in your conversations and want to make sure it stays protected. Google Drive backups were available before to WhatsApp users, but the …
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 messages sent per day, according to data released back in February. And all those messages and files you exchange every day sure pile up. Yes, you can delete some of …
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 voice communication across devices. Unlike Facebook’s Messenger, which has plenty of users of its own, WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, just like Apple’s iMessage, which means your chats and calls are …
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 any profit. That’s about to change, a new report says, as Facebook is looking to cash in on the massive popularity of the chat application. After all, Facebook just showed the world …
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 make group voice and video calls with up to four people. “Over the last couple years,” WhatsApp explains in a blog post today by way of introducing the new feature, …
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 Facebook’s vision for WhatsApp that include monetization and encryption. Jan Koum, reports said, has had it with fighting Mark Zuckerberg and Co. about user data sharing and encryption. Facebook was …
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 string of characters, or an emoji. The newest such endeavor affects Android users of Facebook’s popular chat app WhatsApp. A single emoji is enough to crash the app and other …
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 user data and encryption. His partner, Brian Acton, left the company back in November. He then made the news for investing $50 million in private chat app Signal and encouraging …
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 could be used in criminal cases is protected by encryption, making it hard for police to crack those devices and obtain the evidence they need. Now a recent report from …
