Meta offers both WhatsApp and Facebook instant messaging (see Facebook Messenger). Founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, Meta (then-Facebook) acquired the company for $19 billion in 2014.

If you're tired of WhatsApp's uniform green, you can customize individual or all chats. There are now new options for this.

The messenger WhatsApp is threatened with classification as a Very Large Online Platform. This is due to the number of ...

WhatsApp is easily the single most used chat app in the world, handily surpassing rivals like Messenger, Signal, and Telegram. Given how much sensitive data we tend to share in online ...

Scammers are opportunistic and use holidays or world events to try to trick people. Ahead of Valentine's Day and as part of ...

If you're very online and a ... Listening To" in our MSN Messenger statuses to show how cool/tortured/whatever we were. Soon, you'll be able to share songs with your WhatsApp status updates.

Downdetector, a site that monitors online outage ... website and server connection. While Messenger and WhatsApp users say problems hit the app, login and sending messages. On Downdetector ...

Popularised by platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, this endless stream of tricky-to-make plans, Succession updates, and GIFs keeps us in constant contact with friends, family ...