WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram (and other messaging apps) - business model

Facebook’s chief executive has asserted control over its sprawling divisions and mandated the social network’s messaging services be knitted together. (2019)

The French government is building its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities could spy on private conversations betwee... (2018)

A Hamburg regulator said on Tuesday that neither the messenger nor its parent company had received individuals’ permission to share digital informa... (2018)

Stewart Butterfield’s startup will subsume Atlassian’s corporate chat tools to take on Microsoft. (2018)

Facebook’s $22 billion WhatsApp purchase made Brian Acton one of the richest people in America. But his idealism clashed with Mark Zuckerberg’s fi... (2018)

Your phone number was never meant to be your identity. Now that it effectively is, we're all at risk. (2018)

Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. (2020)

Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google's cloud infrastructur... (2018)

With end-to-end encryption, disappearing messages, and no data collection, there's a lot to love about this privacy-oriented messaging app. (2021)