Privacy groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), have approached the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to hold the Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp,…
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Facebook Messenger finally lands on Windows Phone 8
Microsoft announced during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 that Facebook Messenger would soon be landing on Windows Phone 8. That indeed happened today and now the messaging app can be downloaded…
Facebook in acquisition talks with Drone maker Titan Aerospace
Social networking giant, Facebook, is said to be in acquisition talks with Titan Aerospace, a Texas based solar powered drone manufacturing company, with an aim of using its high-altitude autonomous aircraft to…
Yahoo to disable Facebook, Google sign-ins gradually
Yahoo will be terminating the logins through Google and Facebook accounts gradually, new reports have claimed. Users will require a Yahoo ID to access all of Yahoo’s services including Fantasy Sports and…
Facebook to pull the plug on Messenger for Windows, Firefox on March 3
Facebook is going to the pull the plug on Messenger for Windows and Firefox on March 3 according to message that has popped up on top of the app. “We’re sorry, but…
Telegram grows huge post Facebook-WhatsApp buyout deal
It seems like Telegram is benefiting from WhatsApp’s buyout as Millions of users have reportedly switched to Telegram after Facebook made its move for the world’s largest messaging app. Telegram revealed that…
Facebook retires @facebook.com email address system quietly
Facebook has put a full stop to its own email system after being unsuccessful to attract users. This means that the email address system that gave all users a @facebook.com mailing account…
Are WhatsApp users defecting to Telegram, Threema, other messaging apps?
Acquisitions are a common thing in the technology world, but there are few that really raise brows and there are even fewer of those which attract regular user attention. One such acquisition…
Soon to be Facebook owned messaging service, WhatsApp goes down for hours
WhatsApp, the messaging app for which Facebook is shelling out a whopping $19 billion, went down for hours just days after the acquisition. WhatsApp acknowledged the outage through a tweet, which was…
WhatsApp alternative Threema tops German App Store charts
Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition may have had a negative impact on the latter at least in Germany as within 24 hours of the acquisition announcement, Threema – a Swiss instant messaging app and…
Users’ personal information not safe post Facebook-WhatsApp acquisition says German privacy regulator
Citing Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp German data protection regulator on Thursday has urged WhatsApp users to switch to a more safe and secure messaging service immediately. The social networking giant on Wednesday…
Facebook shells out $19 billion to acquire WhatsApp
Facebook announced the purchase of WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service in a $19 billion deal, the biggest acquisition of Facebook till date. As we revealed earlier in the day, the transaction involves…
Facebook buys Whatsapp
According to a regulatory filing, social networking giant Facebook is buying one of the leading cross platform instant messaging app Whatsapp for a whopping $16 billion in cash and stock. The filing…
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s 10th birthday: ‘We just cared more’
The ten year old journey, which started with founding of Facebook on February 4, 2004, has been ‘extremely amazing’, said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the world’s biggest social network….
Kaspersky backpedals on Facebook SMS claims
Kaspersky is backpedaled on its earlier statements wherein it claimed that Facebook was intentionally reading users’ SMS and other confidential information. In an emailed statement to various media outlets, Kaspersky denied being…