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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…
Insider Inc.
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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…
Ben Gilbert
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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…
Grace Dean
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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…
Hillary Hoffower
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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 …
Matthew Loh
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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…
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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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…
Katie Canales
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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 …
Katie Canales
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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 …
Bani Sapra
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10 things in tech you need to know today
The gaming giant behind "Grand Theft Auto" is buying "Farmville" developer Zynga, and a man says he…
Jordan Parker Erb
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Signal or WhatsApp? Here's how the messaging apps differ and how to decide which one to use.
While Signal offers users more privacy, WhatsApp has customizable features that allow for easier us…