Tag: Facebook’s WhatsApp

• Thursday, July 4th 2019 - 08:11 UTC

  Facebook says service has been fully restored: “problem during routine maintenance operation”

  

  Facebook said on Wednesday an issue with uploading or sending media files on its apps and platforms has been resolved.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  WhatsApp CEO steps down: allegedly clashes with parent company Facebook

  

  WhatsApp chief executive Jan Koum is to quit the popular messaging service he co-founded. In a post on Facebook, he said he was “taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology”. However, according to a Washington Post report earlier on Monday, Mr Koum had clashed with parent company Facebook over Whatsapp's strategy.

• Thursday, May 4th 2017 - 06:48 UTC

  WhatsApp suffers several hours global outage

  

  WhatsApp, the popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that lasted for several hours before being resolved, the company said.

• Monday, March 27th 2017 - 11:38 UTC

  UK calls on companies to stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate”

  

  Companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate” using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday.