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…
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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…
WhatsApp for PC is a banking Trojan in disguise
A spam email campaign claiming to provide WhatsApp for PC download is circulating on the web and according to security experts it spreads banking Trojan with low detection rate. WhatsApp, the messaging…
WhatsApp has 430 million monthly active users, processes 50 billion messages a day
WhatsApp has grown huge to become one of the most popular instant messaging service available today with a whopping 430 million monthly active users by end of December last year. Addressing the…
Facebook isn’t cool anymore
A new European Union-funded study has found that teenagers are migrating away from Facebook to other services including Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Whatsapp. University College London (UCL) material sciences professor Daniel Miller,…
WhatsApp has 400 million monthly active users
WhatsApp has reached a new milestone – 400 million monthly active users – an achievement that is second to none with over a 100 million added in the last four months alone….