WhatsApp is set to let people chat without having to reveal their phone number - by exchanging unique usernames instead.It will be rolled out globally to the platform's three ...

Kayley ThomasProducer, Catching a Crime Boss, NewportWatch detectives smash their way into drugs boss Robert Andrews Jr's house in an early morning raidTo the outside world he looked like ...

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WhatsApp is launching three new ad features in a global roll-out across the messaging app.The Meta-owned platform says the new ads will not be shown in the same place ...

Getty ImagesWhatsApp has told the BBC it is supporting fellow tech giant Apple in its legal fight against the UK Home Office over the privacy of its users' data.The ...

Peter Hoskins & Tom GerkenBusiness & technology reportersGetty ImagesThe Israeli firm behind the Pegasus spyware has been ordered to pay WhatsApp $167m (£125m) for hacking 1,400 people in 2019.Pegasus ...

Messaging service WhatsApp went down briefly on Friday afternoon, thousands of users reported.Downdetector, a site which monitors platform outages, received more than 50,000 reports from users shortly after 15:30 ...

Alex Boyd & Sofia Ferreira SantosBBC NewsParliamentOliver Ryan has been the MP for Burnley, in Lancashire, since 2024A second Labour MP has apologised for comments made in a WhatsApp ...

Health minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked after a newspaper revealed he sent a string of offensive and abusive WhatsApp messages.The MP for Gorton and Denton was also suspended ...

Instagram and WhatsApp are now back online after a mass global outage affected several Meta-owned apps on Wednesday.Facebook has yet to confirm whether all its issues have been resolved."Thanks ...

NatWest Group has blocked messaging services WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype on company devices in the UK to stop staff using them to communicate with each other.The bank had ...

And yet the potential power of messaging apps is hard to overstate. Another food aid provider who uses WhatsApp is Emily Connally, managing director of Cherwell Collective, a non-profit ...