All of Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads – went down on Wednesday in a major outage that affected users around the world. The company’s systems suffered a major ...

WhatsApp and Messenger will eventually allow calls from third-party services, too — but only in the EU. WhatsApp and Messenger will eventually allow calls from third-party services, too — but only in ...

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 ...

There’s an update shock coming for Facebook Messenger users, which has implications for the platform’s billion users as well as Meta’s other giant WhatsApp, which is even bigger... Major surprise for ...

In an effort led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has plans to rearchitect WhatsApp, Instagram direct messages, and Facebook Messenger so that messages can travel across any of the platforms. The New ...

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," ...