Lately, privacy has become so much concern, that at least some consumers are looking for text-based encrypted instant messengers which are secure. WhatsApp is still very popular, but from what we have ...

Police have hacked into a WhatsApp-style instant messaging service set up exclusively for gangsters to deal drugs and execute rivals, smashing hundreds of organized crime rings in Europe. More than ...

Facebook has started merging Messenger with Instagram chat, which appears to be the first step towards the unified, end-to-end, instant chat service that Facebook has promised. The first changes ...

Grok for Android now features a home screen widget, giving you one-tap access to Chat, Imagine, and Voice features for ...

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Want AI in WhatsApp? Try ChatGPT for quick answers and image generation, Perplexity for real-time info with sources, and Meta AI for fun chats, stickers, and tasks. Plus, use WhatsApp Web tools for ...

Chat is almost as old as the internet itself. But this year, investors and big tech companies alike treated workplace messaging as the next big thing. Slack announced a $250 million investment in ...

Instant chat app gaming may be in its early stages but the potential audience for these titles is already huge. Speaking at the White Nights Conference in Prague, CoolGames CEO Laurens Rutten ...

Even as Google Inc. was revamping its e-mail service to cater to the social-media crowd, the newly independent AOL Inc. released a version of its instant messaging feature that integrates with ...