"WhatsApp" news, interviews, and features

News about WhatsApp

• Facebook targets Microsoft and Slack with improved business tools

  Social media giant has long courted business customers but is mostly identified with its consumer brands

• How one government is building a WhatsApp alternative to combat privacy concerns

  About 20 officials and top civil servants testing new app which a state-employed developer has designed

• WhatsApp turns its attention to business

  With WhatsApp Business, the company could be eyeing future collaboration efforts

• WhatsApp turns on end-to-end encryption

  Messages sent with the popular app may be much harder for law enforcement to access now

• New trojanised adware means Android users may have to bin their phones

  Over 20,000 apps caught in new malware trend

• Revealed: The top 10 apps that companies hate

  MobileIron surveyed 6000 companies that run its software

Features about WhatsApp

• Facebook coughs up $19bn to buy WhatsApp, draw younger users

  Purchase of messaging app company also seen as boosting Facebook's mobile presence