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WhatsApp co-founder shows remorse for selling out his users' privacy

He is currently funding fully encrypted messaging app Signal

By Cal Jeffrey, September 26, 2018, 5:15 PM 10 comments

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WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to quit amid reported privacy disputes with Facebook

Clashes over encryption and user privacy wore Koum down, say sources

By Rob Thubron, May 1, 2018, 6:07 AM

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WhatsApp temporarily banned in Brazil for a third time

By Rob Thubron, July 20, 2016, 7:30 AM

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WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption rollout is now complete; default option with latest version

By Shawn Knight, April 5, 2016, 6:30 PM

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WhatsApp now has more than a billion active monthly users

By Shawn Knight, February 2, 2016, 1:44 AM

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WhatsApp waves goodbye to its annual subscription fee, testing ad-free business model

By Rob Thubron, January 18, 2016, 11:00 AM

WhatsApp gets ever closer to a billion users as it crosses the 900 million milestone

By Rob Thubron, September 4, 2015, 10:45 AM

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WhatsApp voice calling becomes available to select users

By Justin Kahn, February 3, 2015, 2:45 PM

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WhatsApp finally arrives on the desktop as a web app

By Shawn Knight, January 22, 2015, 9:46 AM 7 comments

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WhatsApp grows to 700 million monthly active users, 30 billion messages sent each day

By Shawn Knight, January 7, 2015, 7:45 AM

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WhatsApp voice calling feature pushed back to early 2015 due to technical hurdles

By Shawn Knight, October 30, 2014, 7:30 AM

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WhatsApp growth holds steady, crosses 600 million monthly active user milestone

By Shawn Knight, August 25, 2014, 2:45 PM

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BlackBerry's new BBM app sees 5 million downloads within its first 8 hours of release

By Justin Kahn, October 22, 2013, 10:30 AM