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WhatsApp Inc

  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    India Business Briefing
    India’s next digital payments boom Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Is India’s stock market run waning and some New Year’s Eve party stats

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    A spectator holding a branded T-shirt during a roadshow for Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messaging service
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    WhatsApp wins legal victory against NSO Group in Pegasus hacking case

    Judge finds no merit in arguments made by Israeli spyware manufacturer

    A montage of a smartphone displaying the  WhatsApp logo and a computer motherboard
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Government of Scotland
    Scottish government to ban WhatsApp on official devices

    Decision comes after disputes over deletion of messages by ministers at height of Covid-19 pandemic

    The WhatsApp application icon on an Apple iPhone X smartphone screen
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    News in-depthNational Health Service
    NHS staff use WhatsApp ‘constantly’ to share private patient data

    Campaigners warn of ‘wild west’ approach to security in UK health service

    A montage of a hand holding a smartphone with the WhatsApp chat bubble on it with two nurses walking in a hospital corridor in the background
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    FT CollectionsTech Exchange
    Alice Newton-Rex: ‘WhatsApp makes people feel confident to be themselves’

    The messaging platform’s director of product discusses privacy issues, AI and new features for the app’s 2bn users

  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Rutherford Hall
    It’s hard to wear your principles if someone else paid for the suit

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    The most annoying thing about young people at work

    They are very often right, especially when it comes to working hours

    An illustration of a young person, feet on desk and holding a smart phone while an older man and woman holding note pads and pens look on.
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Rutherford Hall
    Are you a lifeguard? Well then you can’t work from the beach

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

    A cartoon man stands outside an office block
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Jemima Kelly
    How to avoid being a voice note bore

    Self-indulgence is acceptable but don’t whine, don’t argue and stay off the group chat

    Ben Hickey illustration of a figure holding a mobile phone at an arm stretch distance with sound wave coming out of it towards him.
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    FT Magazine
    A note from the food & drink editor
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Apple Inc
    Apple removes WhatsApp from China store under pressure from Beijing

    Internet regulator orders delisting of two Meta-owned apps over ‘national security concerns’

    Meta’s logo
  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
    Rutherford Hall
    Never call yourself a futurist

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Governments need to take record-keeping seriously in the digital age

    Disappearing WhatsApp messages will be a problem for future historians

    Illustration of a smartphone with a messaging app open on the screen and all the messages melting and running off the side of the phone
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Cyber Security
    UK politicians should use ‘disappearing messages’ on devices, says GCHQ

    Fresh guidance from a branch of the signals intelligence agency comes after government blames China for cyber attacks

    Apps on a phone
  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    Rutherford Hall
    Our clients don’t want to hear from Tories anymore

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

    A cartoon man in a suit holds a mobile phone outside an office block
  • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
    Technology
    Is rule by WhatsApp sending wrong message on transparency?

    Vanishing private communications have raised questions over how ministers and officials use platform for state business

    Martin Reynolds, Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and Nicola Sturgeon
  • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
    OutlookChloe Cornish
    India has embraced WhatsApp, but Meta now needs to make it pay

    The country has become a Petri dish for examining how business messaging can work — and bring in revenue

    A WhatsApp ambassador dressed in a green shirt with the WhatsApp logo talks to a woman on her motorbike
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Meta Platforms
    Meta launches AI chatbots for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

    Facebook parent unveils ‘mixed-reality’ Quest 3 headset to rival Apple’s Vision Pro

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech at the Meta Connect event
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    WhatsApp launches in-chat payments service for businesses in India

    Parent company Meta seeks to tap its messaging service’s biggest market to boost revenue

    Tourists walk past WhatsApp ads in Mumbai
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Meta mulls putting ads in WhatsApp as it seeks revenue boost

    Talks are at an early stage, sources say, as Facebook parent looks for new ways to increase revenue

  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Internet privacy
    UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging

    Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown

    Close-up of a smartphone in someone’s hands
  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    Lex
    Messaging: WhatsApp’s business case could lift wider sector

    Raising demand requires additional services, and generative artificial intelligence could be the answer

    WhatsApp logo on a phone
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Juliet Riddell
    When wild swimming goes bad

    How my idyllic-seeming school trip ended with 46 people falling sick

    A polluted water sign next to a body of water
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Covid inquiry legal fight: a sideshow to broader quarrel about WhatsApp

    Spread of informal messaging across departments raises concerns of slapdash decision-making

    Then prime minister Boris Johnson and chancellor Rishi Sunak gather with colleagues in the cabinet room in 10 Downing Street in June 2020
  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    Rutherford Hall
    It’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and we’re watching it live

    An FT column offering a behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

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