WhatsApp, founded in 2009 wigh a vow to keep it ad free, was bought by Facebook in 2014. “Like everything else on WhatsApp, we’ve built these features in the most privacy-oriented way possible,” Meta ...

The launch upends its founders’ original mission of creating an app with ‘No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!’ This week, WhatsApp ...

With Google Hotels under pressure and "bruised," Expedia, Tripadvisor, Trivago and a newbie, Super.com are making gains.

As India monitors developments in the region and prepares its evacuation plans from the conflict zone, it faces a diplomatic ...

Channel admins can now enable monthly subscriptions for exclusive content. If you have a channel on WhatsApp, instead of just ...

I talked with a professor of advertising to make sense of what this means for all of us who use those social media platforms.

Meta is adding three ad features to WhatsApp. This represents the company’s most significant monetization push for the messaging platform, which has become a global communication standard across ...

End-to-end encryption is still guaranteed, and Meta also said that if users only use the app to call or message their ...

After the tech giant announced it would begin to include ads in WhatsApp’s Updates tab, which is used by roughly 1.5 million ...

For years, WhatsApp resisted the advertising model even as its parent company heavily monetised its other platforms like ...

Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country's public to remove the messaging platform WhatsApp from their ...