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Signal, the privacy-centric messaging service, spent long hours battling a global outage last weekend. The disruption is reported to have been caused by a high influx of new users.

Signal, the privacy-centric messaging service, took to Twitter to thank new users for their support. It also took the opportunity to apologize for delays in delivery of verification codes preventing registration for many new users.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has never been a fan of Facebook or its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

For more than a year, we have been hearing about Facebook's highly ambitious plan to monetize WhatsApp by showing ads.

If you become a billionaire overnight, how would you spend that truckload of money?

MacKenzie Bezos (48), the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos (55), has become the newest billionaire to sign The Giving Pledge - a philanthropy group of the world's wealthiest people.

WhatsApp, the largest messaging service in the world, will serve advertisements as part of an effort to generate revenues.

12 months ago, Facebook made a promise of fixing issues that marred its reputation and affected its community throughout 2017.

In what is sure to hurt WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook, Neeraj Arora, the Chief Business Officer of the messaging app, announced on Monday that he will leave the company.

In what might come as a disappointment to many WhatsApp users, as well as WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, the messaging platform is getting ready to serve advertisements to users around the world.

WhatsApp, the biggest messaging service in the world, is planning to roll out targeted Ads in its status feature as part of its monetization efforts.

According to reliable leaker WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is already working to implement ads on its iOS app.

Since WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton quit Facebook a year ago and then went on to bite the hand that fed him, tweeting, "It is time. #deletefacebook", many questions had remained unanswered.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of photo and video sharing network Instagram, have decided to quit.

Facebook has announced that Chris Daniels, who is the VP of the company's Internet.org initiative, will replace WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum.

After WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum confirmed that he is quitting the company, reports have surfaced that the popular chat app's next potential CEO could be Neeraj Arora, who's the head of "All Things Business" at the company.

WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum has confirmed that he is leaving the company.

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal highlighted how data of 87 million users was exploited due to Facebook's lax policies regarding data collection by third-party apps.

Mozilla has announced to temporarily distance itself from Facebook.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has deleted both the companies' Facebook accounts after he responded to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton's tweet urging people to support the #deletefacebook movement.

In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion, which increased the net worth of one of the co-founders of the chat app, Brian Acton, to $6.5 billion.

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has invested $50 million in encrypted instant messaging app Signal.

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has one of the world's largest user-bases with over 1.3 billion users.

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton took to Facebook to announce he is leaving the company.

WhatsApp is finally gearing up for its next big step. With Paytm planning on bringing its messaging service soon, it has now decided to integrate UPI-based mobile payments system into its platform.

Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp doesn't make any money as of now.

iOS users will soon be able to play YouTube videos directly on WhatsApp, according to WABetaInfo, which claims the feature is under development.

The latest update of WhatsApp makes sharing of files easier. Large documents can now be shared; the update limits the file size sharing up to 100MB.

WhatsApp users might soon be able to transfer money via UPI on the platform. The Facebook-owned messaging app is already in talks with SBI, NPCI and other financial institutions to "devise ways to integrate their systems" for the same.

How many times have you sent a message to a boss/ex/relative on WhatsApp, only to regret it the very next second?

According to FactorDaily, WhatsApp is prepping up to launch peer to peer payments in India.

The Government of UK is creating pressure on WhatsApp for access to encrypted communications after the Westminister attack.

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has indicated that the popular messaging app may soon venture into digital payments space.