Facebook
What exactly happened that caused Facebook’s outage?
On Thursday, Facebook said that it had finally found the culprit and fixed a technical issue that led to a widespread outage of near 24 hours across its…
WhatsApp features and issues: group video calls, outages shared with Facebook and Instagram, EU age rules and installing it on an Apple Watch.
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Apps
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are still experiencing widespread service interruptions
On Wednesday, users around the world started noticing that they aren't able to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. All three services have experienced interruptions throughout the day and…
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JoltEDU: How to Install WhatsApp on your Apple Watch
If you have an Apple Watch and are an avid WhatsApp user (we are!), then you might want to have the convenience of using WhatsApp directly from your…
Politics
FTC’s new Tech Task Force will keep an eye on tech monopolies
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to launch a tech task force that will monitor competition in the US tech market, per announcement from commissioners. The task…
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly planning to unify all of Facebook’s messaging apps
According to a report from The New York Times, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to brings all three messaging apps they own under one roof. One of…
Facebook
WhatsApp to comply with EU regulations by requiring users to be at least 16 years old
Soon, Europe's GDPR privacy standards will launch. Several companies have already announced changes that will affect European users, and you can add WhatsApp to that list. Sky News…
Apple
Democrats looking to subpeana tech companies over private chats
The House of Representatives' investigation into the Russian meddling in 2016 election may have come to and end, but Democrats eyeing some news targets, if and when they…
Companies
WhatsApp has agreed to not share user data with Facebook in Europe
WhatsApp has agreed to not share data with Facebook (its parent company) until the two companies can share the information in a way that both comply with the…
BlackBerry
BlackBerry is suing Facebook for isolating messaging patents
Facebook is facing a lawsuit from BlackBerry for infringing a messaging technology patent in a Los Angeles Federal Court. The lawsuit points out Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram for…
Mobile
New milestone hit by WhatsApp, now with 400 million active users
6:05 PM - WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging platforms used these days. It's a great cross-platform for those who have different types of smartphones and don't…