Tag: Whatsapp

Instagram And WhatsApp Are Both Getting Group Video Calls Soon

At its F8 conference yesterday, Facebook announced that it’s bringing group video chats to both Instagram and WhatsApp in future updates.   On Instagram, you’ll soon find a new camera...

Whatsapp Co-founder Jan Koum Announces Intention To Quit

WhatsApp chief executive Jan Koum is to quit the popular messaging service he co-founded. In a post on Facebook, he said he was "taking some...

WhatsApp To Raise Minimum Age Limit For Users To 16

Popular messaging service WhatsApp is banning under-16s from using its platform in the European Union. Users must currently be at least 13, but the firm...

Ghana asks mosques to turn down the noise and use WhatsApp...

In a bid to curb noise pollution, authorities in Ghana want Muslims to use WhatsApp rather than loudspeakers for the call to prayer. In the capital...

France builds WhatsApp rival due to surveillance risk

The French government is building its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities could spy on private conversations between top officials,...

WhatsApp drug dealer convicted using fingerprints taken from photo

Police in South Wales have arrested a drug dealer based on a WhatsApp message with a photograph of the dealer’s hand holding an assortment...

WhatsApp gets inline YouTube playback and improved voice recording

WhatsApp’s latest update gives you the ability to play YouTube videos inside chats so that you don’t have to be redirected to another app. It...

#DELETEFACEBOOK gains traction as WhatsApp co-founder joins the movement

Facebook is under fire for its data sharing practices, with Cambridge Analytica having misused user data of as many as 50 million Facebook users. Now, in...

BlackBerry sues Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram over messaging patents

Canadian business software provider and former phone giant, BlackBerry has sued Facebook, along with its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram, for infringing on its messaging patents in a...

WhatsApp cofounder invests $50 million into encrypted messaging app Signal

Signal is getting a boost from a billionaire tech founder with a history of bringing secure messaging to the masses. Brian Acton, the cofounder...