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WhatsApp

Why all your friends are sending you voice notes

By Shirin Ghaffary

Stop using your phone number to log in

By Sara Morrison

How India runs on WhatsApp

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath

Why the US government wants Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp

By Rebecca Heilweil

The Jeff Bezos hack could happen to anyone

By Sara Morrison

This could be the beginning of the end for Facebook’s social network

By Kurt Wagner

Mark Zuckerberg believes Facebook’s future is private messaging

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp is at risk in India. So are free speech and encryption.

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook is in trouble for secretly breaking Apple’s rules. But what it’s doing out in the open is way worse.

By Eric Johnson

WhatsApp is fighting fake news by limiting its virality. Could Facebook and Twitter do the same?

By Kurt Wagner and Rani Molla

Facebook’s reputation as a good place for founders is suddenly under attack

By Kurt Wagner

This stream has:

Facebook is implementing a massive product reorganization

By Kurt Wagner

Chris Cox is becoming Facebook’s most important executive not named Mark Zuckerberg

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp has a new boss: Chris Daniels, the guy who’s been running Facebook’s Internet.org

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum is leaving Facebook and is expected to step down from the board

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving the company to start his own foundation

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp is building out its business team to start bringing in revenue

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp’s Jan Koum sold or gifted more than $5 billion worth of Facebook stock over the past year

By Kurt Wagner

After the London terror attack, a top U.K. official says Facebook needs to open up WhatsApp

By Peter Kafka

WhatsApp is rolling out its own version of Snapchat (and Instagram) Stories

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp has hired its first COO: Facebook exec Matt Idema

By Kurt Wagner

New Year’s Eve was WhatsApp’s busiest messaging day ever

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp is adding FaceTime-style video calls

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp just added a bunch of Snapchat-style camera features

By Kurt Wagner

WhatsApp just launched a new app — on desktop

By Kurt Wagner

Why is Facebook doing so well?

By Jan Dawson

Here are the things you probably won't hear on Facebook's earnings call

By Kurt Wagner

Viber Joins WhatsApp, Apple With End-to-End Encryption

By Kurt Wagner

The New Encryption Bill Isn't Finished and Silicon Valley Already Hates it

By Dawn Chmielewski

Take That, FBI: WhatsApp Is Now Fully Encrypted

By Kurt Wagner

Why Was a Facebook Executive Arrested in Brazil? Encryption.

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook's WhatsApp Is Now Free

By Ina Fried

Is Your Messaging App Encrypted?

By Kurt Wagner

The Familiar Culprit Behind Brazil's WhatsApp Ban: Encryption

By Kurt Wagner

Brazil Has Blocked Access to WhatsApp for Two Days

By Rich McCormick

Code/Mobile 2015: Facebook VP of Messaging Product David Marcus

By Kara Swisher

You No Longer Need a Facebook Account to Use Facebook Messenger

By Kurt Wagner

Three Things We Want to See From Facebook Earnings (But Probably Won't)

By Kurt Wagner

Re/wind: Microsoft's Fancy New Holographic Headset Thing, Saving Deleted Photos and More

By Noah Kulwin

WhatsApp Is Coming to Your Desktop

By Kurt Wagner