The world's most popular instant messaging app for major mobile and desktop platforms from WhatsApp Inc., wholly owned by Meta Platforms. As of 2025, more than two billion people use WhatsApp every ...

Facebook services are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to access Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. When attempting to access Facebook services, users ...

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 ...

Facebook Messenger is getting a desktop app for Mac and Windows, addressing one of the biggest complaints about the IM platform, as the company meshes its three messaging services. Announced at F8 ...

A report a few days ago revealed that Mark Zuckerberg directed teams working on the various Facebook chat apps to create a unified instant messaging app that would incorporate Messenger, WhatsApp, and ...

It was inevitable. At the behest of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is reportedly planning to integrate the technical infrastructure that powers WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram to create a single, unified ...

We demystified it last month, but Facebook’s $18 billion acquisition of WhatsApp should begin to make more sense to people today after the company announced that its Messenger service will become a ...

Facebook has spent $19 billion to buy messaging startup WhatsApp and an almost quaint $1 billion or so to buy photo messaging startup Instagram. Then Wednesday at its F8 developers conference, the ...