After the arrest of Telegram’s boss in France, attention is on the messaging app and its hands-off approach to content moderation. Some blame it for inflaming unrest, others see it as a den for criminal...
The giant retailer said it had “hired rapidly” over the past few years. It also cited the “uncertain economy” as a reason for its latest round of job cuts. Giant retailer Amazon announced on Wednesday...
Ireland’s privacy regulator has fined WhatsApp a record amount for breaking European Union data protection rules. It said the company had failed to give users transparency about how their data would be used. Ireland’s Data...
Many users abandoned WhatsApp after the messenger service changed its privacy policy. Worries that their data could end up with Facebook are driving them to competitors pushing superior data protection. Millions of digital messenger app...
A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the messaging platform that allows third parties to intercept messages. Although notified in April, Facebook has failed to redress the security flaw. Tobias Boelter, a cryptography researcher...
Popular mobile messenger WhatsApp has joined the fray of allowing users to place in-app calls. It’s the latest development in a broader shift toward Internet-based services and away from conventional tariff models. It didn’t take...
Facebook’s acquisition of smartphone messaging service WhatsApp widens the social network giant’s portfolio and opens the door to further data. But analysts say that could go hand-in-hand with more data abuse. Facebook’s chief executive Mark...
On first sight, the latest Facebook Messenger app for iOS and Android doesn’t resemble any Facebook product. If someone asked me what app this was, I would have blindly said a newer version of Skype...
Some Internet services in the European Union are blocked by providers because they undermine profits. Skype and Whatsapp are just two examples. The EU now wants to take action, but critics are skeptical. EU commissioner...
The telecommunications industry is losing billions to competition from social messaging apps like Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber, a report says. The industry knows it’s time to fight back. On a recent trip abroad, I had...
