Facebook plans to rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp so users know they’re from the social network, a move that highlights how the company is exerting more control over its acquisitions. The apps will say “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook.” “We want to be clearer about the products and services that are part of Facebook,” …
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WhatsApp is launching a payments system later this year, starting in India. Will Cathcart, the Facebook subsidiary’s global head, said Wednesday the company has been testing its payments in India since last year, according to Business Today. The messaging app has 400 million users in India and 1.5 billion globally, the report says, with the payments announcement coming as Facebook …
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iMessage envy is real. Apple’s chat service has set the gold standard for a seamless messaging experience, where iMessage on the Mac picks up where you leave off on your iPhone. The downside for Windows users — iMessage won’t on your PC. But that doesn’t mean you can’t chat from the comfort of your Windows PC. There are now a number …
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With this vulnerability, what you see on WhatsApp and Telegram might not be what was sent. Despite the secure messaging apps’ end-to-end encryption protecting people from government surveillance, researchers from Symantec disclosed flaws that could allow potential hackers to alter images and audio files. While the sender might have sent, say, a photo of a map, malware could exploit this …
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Facebook says its platforms, including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook itself, are all back up and running after an issue earlier Wednesday. For the majority of the day, the apps were experiencing issues uploading and sending images, videos and other files. The company confirmed this in tweets for Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram. “The issue has since been resolved and we should be back …
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Facebook changed the way we communicate. Now the social media giant wants to change how its roughly 2.4 billion users think about using a cryptocurrency to make everyday purchases. Earlier this week, the social network and its partners unveiled a global digital coin called Libra, confirming details of a project that had been leaking out in dribs and drabs for months. …
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Facebook has slapped Huawei with yet another ban by no longer letting the embattled Chinese phone marker preinstall its apps. Huawei phone owners will still be able to download and update Facebook’s apps, but fresh Huawei devices can’t come with Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram apps preinstalled, as previously reported by Reuters. “We are reviewing the Commerce Department’s final rule and …
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It’s official: BlackBerry Messenger is no more. The beloved messaging platform was officially shut down on May 31, following an announcement earlier this year. BBM was one of the first messaging apps to use read receipts and typing indicators, but it long held up security as a key selling point. While you may be feeling nostalgic about the demise of BBM, …
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Anyone can get into Nigeria’s tech scene, says Chibuzor Obiora. That wasn’t true just a few years ago. A 29-year-old developer, Obiora began coding in 2014 when he was hired by Andela, a Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative-sponsored tech firm that offers Africans paid training in software development. Back then, his colleagues were all men around his age and older. But in the …
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Should Facebook be broken up? In recent weeks, some politicians in the US and even one of Facebook’s co-founders have expressed strong opinions that the world’s largest social network has grown too powerful, and that it should be split off into its component parts. But the EU, typically more heavy-handed than the US when it comes to regulating Silicon Valley …
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