China: goodbye WhatsApp, Threads, Signal and Telegram
Why Tim Cook cannot abandon the Asian giant WhatsApp, Threads, Signal and Telegram: China orders, and Apple delivers. It's not the first time and probably won't be the last given, considering the entanglements that bind the Californian company to the Asian
Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China app store after Beijing order
By Josh Ye and Mrinmay Dey (Reuters) - Apple said on Friday it had removed Meta Platforms' WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China after being ordered to do so by the Chinese government, which cited national security concerns. Telegram
Meta’s WhatsApp down for thousands, Downdetector shows
By Jaspreet Singh and Akash Sriram (Reuters) - Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were about 12,000 incidents of U.S. users reporting issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector,
20 years of Facebook, merits and many flaws of a colossus immune to crisis
20 years of Facebook have changed the world like few other digital revolutions. Mark Elliott Zuckerberg's intuition in creating a site in two weeks to facilitate meetings and acquaintance among Harvard students is an example of conduct outside the box in retrospect.
Stop using WhatsApp, get Paris-made alternative, French PM tells ministers
By Elizabeth Pineau and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) - France's prime minister asked her cabinet to stop using widespread instant messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram and install widely unknown Olvid, a product of Paris's start-up scene presenting itself as
WhatsApp Scams You Should Be Wary Of
As digital communication becomes increasingly popular, so does the number of scams targeting users. As one of the most widely used messaging apps globally, WhatsApp has also become a prime target for fraudsters to carry out their malicious activities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk0NbbTMLf8
Meta introduces broadcast tool Channels on WhatsApp
By Niket Nishant and Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Thursday introduced WhatsApp Channels, a feature that the social media giant said would help make the app a "private broadcast messaging product." Users in Colombia and Singapore will be the first
WhatsApp allows users to edit messages
Men pose with smartphones in front of displayed Whatsapp logo in this illustration September 14, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/ By Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) - WhatsApp has granted users one of its most awaited features - the ability to edit messages. "For the moments when
Truecaller aims to help WhatsApp users combat spam
A woman uses her phone next to a logo of the WhatsApp application during Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, India September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas By Munsif Vengattil NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Truecaller will soon start making its caller identification service available