Facebook’s $22 billion WhatsApp purchase made Brian Acton one of the richest people in America. But his idealism clashed with Mark Zuckerberg’s financial juggernaut. For the first time, Acton ...

WhatsApp users will finally be able to move their entire chat history between mobile operating systems — something that’s been one of users’ biggest requests to date.

WhatsApp has became a draft room of Syrian history — a diary of identities shed and transformed. I’ve been reporting in the Middle East for more than six years.

While unlikely to become a movie, WhatsApp’s $16 billion-plus sale to Facebook yesterday marks one of the biggest tech deals ever, and one that bears some resemblance to the working class ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal, a ...

Few, if any, services have done more to bring secure messaging to more people than WhatsApp. Since 2016, the messaging platform has enabled end-to-end encryption—by default, no less—for its ...

WhatsApp is finally addressing one of the biggest problems with its chat histories: the inability to carry them over when you switch platforms.The Facebook brand has used Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked ...