"WhatsApp" news, interviews, and features

News about WhatsApp

• WhatsApp security breach may have targeted human rights groups

  Seeks help from U.S. Department of Justice for investigation

• Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffer outages

  Facebook has not revealed the cause of the outages

• ACCC to determine if MTAS should be regulated

  Due to consumers' increase use of Skype and 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

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