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Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike steps down, names WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton as interim CEO

"It's a new year, and I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal," said M…

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Facebook says it doesn't read WhatsApp messages, but an investigation found it actually does

Facebook is reportedly paying teams of contractors around the world to read through WhatsApp messag…

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Signal won't replace WhatsApp, the cofounder of both encrypted messaging apps says. Instead, people will use the 2 services for different conversations.

"I have no desire to do all the things that WhatsApp does," Brian Acton, a cofounder of Signal, tol…

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WhatsApp co-founder and Signal investor Brian Acton targets 100-200 million Signal users in India

Elated at Indians, including top entrepreneurs and celebrities, rushing to join his encrypted messa…

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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton leads $3.5 million funding round in Gurgaon-based startup

The startup raised undisclosed amount of funding, but reportedly, Acton and two other investors hav…

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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton invested $50 million into the Signal app - here's how he spends his $6.9 billion fortune

Acton and his WhatsApp co-founder, Jan Koum, started the company after leaving Yahoo, and it has si…

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WhatsApp Founders Got Around $9-Billion Share In Facebook Stock At The Time Of Acquisition

Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant, got 76.4 million Facebook shares, now worth $5.8 billion (approximatel…

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Facebook Rejected WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton For A Job Back In 2009

A lot can happen in few years. You can go from the vice president of engineering for Yahoo, to a gu…

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Elon Musk is escalating his beef with Mark Zuckerberg, claiming WhatsApp 'cannot be trusted' and saying the Meta CEO seems 'extremely partisan'

After a Twitter engineer said WhatsApp used his microphone without his knowledge, Musk made veiled …

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WhatsApp users will finally be able to edit their messages after they've sent them — but only for 15 minutes

WhatsApp is making its new message editing feature available to its 2 billion users globally, allow…

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'Jamtara Global': Indian WhatsApp users flooded with spam calls

These spam calls with international numbers, mostly from African and Southeast Asian countries, alo…

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Former WhatsApp exec says he regrets the startup's sale to Facebook because it became a 'shadow of the product we poured our hearts into'

Neeraj Arora tweeted he regrets helping WhatsApp sell to Facebook, which he said went back on its p…

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Neeraj Arora, former chief business officer of WhatsApp regrets sale to Facebook

Neeraj Arora, the former chief business officer of WhatsApp has said that he regrets the sale to Fa…

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Signal appears to be down for some users after the messaging app saw a record spike in downloads

The apparent issues come after Signal saw a 4,200% spike in downloads after WhatsApp users flocked …

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WhatsApp is forcing users to share personal data with Facebook, and Elon Musk is urging people to switch to Signal, a smaller encrypted messaging app

If users don't agree to let Facebook collect their WhatsApp data, they will lose access to the app,…

Isobel Asher Hamilton   


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WhatsApp may lose its flavour as Facebook CEO integrates apps

WhatsApp has so far been a great experience for billions of users globally where there are no ads i…

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Facebook will reportedly stop pushing to sell ads on WhatsApp, more than a year after its founders resigned in protest of the effort

And the decision comes more than 18 months after WhatsApp cofounders Brian Acton and Jan Koum left …

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'This is probably the last time you'll ever talk to me': WhatsApp's cofounder broke his silence about his icy relationship with Mark Zuckerberg

He recounted one meeting where he was dragged before Zuckerberg and Facebook's lawyers about how Fa…

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Twitter CEO Dorsey says download Signal as US protests gain steam

San Francisco, June 4 (IANS) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has pitched for downloading encrypted messagin…