Meta says not planning ads on WhatsApp

In a one-two punch of centibillion-dollar offers, the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is over. David Ellison-owned Paramount will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Netflix has lost. Plus, Plaid valued at $8B in employee share sale. The new valuation is a 31% increase from $6 ... Show More

The suit said Walmart mislead drivers about their possible tips and would reduce their base pay, among other things. Also, Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web. Learn more about your ad ch ... Show More

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Where did the WhatsApp messaging service come from, how did it get so popular, and why did Facebook spend so much money to acquire it? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

WhatsApp commence l'année 2021 de la pire des manières. La polémique autour de ses nouvelles conditions générales d’utilisations a poussé de nombreux utilisateurs à migrer vers d’autres applications de messagerie comme Signal ou Telegram. Ces derniers n’ont sans doute pas appréci ... Show More

Meta’s most expensive acquisition ever and one of the most used communication apps in the world: WhatsApp. With over 2 billion users, WhatsApp is embedded in the social, economic, and political infrastructure of countries across the globe. For better and worse. The story of Whats ... Show More

Texte:<br>L'application de messagerie Whatsapp vient d'annoncer qu'elle reportait son projet de changer sa politique de partage de données après d'importantes réactions négatives.<br><br>Traduction:<br>The messaging app WhatsApp has just announced that it will postpone planned ch ... Show More

After WhatsApp announced some major changes to its privacy policy, Elon Musk – the world’s richest man – urged his followers to take their messaging elsewhere. In this episode, we discuss WhatsApp’s latest changes in privacy and walk you through the features of the application, S ... Show More

Meta says it will retire Facebook's "news" tag in the UK, France, and Germany, ahead of rules that might force it to pay for content. Users may not care, but it has left the media scrambling. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and ... Show More

Facebook takes on TikTok with a new, vertical-first video player; WhatsApp goes down in Meta’s second big outage this year; OnePlus went ahead and built its own version of Google Magic Eraser Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Bumble’s new AI tool identifies and blocks scam accounts, fake profiles; Tinder’s new warnings inform users when they’re potentially being inappropriate; Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices