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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Meta has confirmed that every day criminals are using text ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Less than a month ago, on July 18, I reported how Meta had ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

A new beta version of WhatsApp released for Android is testing a feature that allows users to reserve their usernames from Facebook and Instagram for use on the instant messaging app in the future.