10 years ago to the day, Facebook announced that it was purchasing WhatsApp for $19.6 billion — that’s billion, with a B. The news rocked the online world for several reasons, not the least of which ...

Meta is now allowing you to connect WhatsApp to Accounts Center for streamlined settings and cross-platform sharing. Integration is not automatic -- users must manually enable it, and it will change ...

There’s an update shock coming for Facebook Messenger users, which has implications for the platform’s billion users as well as Meta’s other giant WhatsApp, which is even bigger... Major surprise for ...

If you use WhatsApp, Facebook, or other Meta-owned apps, chances are you had a rough afternoon today. Why? WhatsApp, Facebook, and other apps were down for a couple of hours. When did the outage start ...

Acquired a decade ago for $22 billion, WhatsApp has yet to become a big business for Facebook. This has become something "we have to do," said Matt Idema, a vice president of business messaging.

Headlines this week following Elon Musk’s fight with Meta should be a serious reality check for 3 billion messaging users across WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Here’s what you need to know. Do these ...

Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing a global outage with thousands of reports of the app not working properly since roughly 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.WhatsApp appears to have ...

CHICAGO -- Social media platforms WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are down Wednesday in various countries due to a technical problem, Mark Zuckerberg said. According to Downdetector, the ...

Ukrainian entrepreneur Jan Koum stopped by Facebook ( FB) founder Mark Zuckerberg's house on Valentine's Day with a box of chocolate-covered strawberries. Koum left with $19 billion in his pocket ...