Earlier this week, the European Commission announced the first list of gatekeeper companies and services for the European Union (EU). That's how we know Apple doesn't have to open iMessage to RCS ...

In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the project to merge Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, and WhatsApp. Last year, the company started unifying Instagram and Messenger by allowing you to message ...

The EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) law is about to change the tech landscape in ways that other markets can only dream of, or dread, depending on who you ask. Features like iPhone sideloading and chat ...

In context: March 6 was the deadline for the biggest tech companies in the world to comply with the provisions of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA). The six so-called "gatekeepers," ...

While all three apps will continue to work as stand-alone applications, the underlying messaging infrastructure will be integrated. For example, a Facebook Messenger user could message a WhatsApp user ...

Last year, Facebook merged WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram’s private messages into a single messaging platform. While each app remains a separate icon in your phone’s app library, users ...

No company is immune from the generative AI wave, and everybody wants in. Meta is the latest entrant in testing AI-powered tools for its products. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company is ...

Transferring your WhatsApp chats to Arattai Messenger is simple and secure. Just update both apps, ensure you have stable internet and enough storage, then export chats from WhatsApp (with or without ...

One of the most popular features of Facebook-owned WhatsApp is group messaging, which turns the app's end-to-end encrypted chats into social groups that can include up to 256 participants. But recent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. The world’s leading tech giants look set to battle each other this ...

For decades, when you called someone and they didn't answer, you could "leave a message after the tone." That way, when the ...