And Box’s IPO went just fine, thanks for asking.
Oh, and “The Interview” made Sony Pictures a $30 million.
That’s more than 200 million new users since the Facebook acquisition.
“It was a little surreal.”
Social sites are “the command and control networks of choice for terrorists.”
With Facebook footing the bill, WhatsApp has no pressure to monetize anytime soon.
WhatsApp made just $10 million in revenue in 2013.
Getting ready for the Code/Mobile conference.
The Facebook board member regrets his behavior involving his ex-girlfriend.
Plus, the E.C. clears Facebook-Whatsapp, #beardgate and the worst cat ever.
Facebook gets the green light from European regulators on its WhatsApp purchase.
How the staff of Re/code prepares the lineup for Code/Mobile, Oct. 27-28.
Can any one messaging app sway the app charts the way Line, WeChat and KakaoTalk do in Asia?
This signals a potentially big shift in payments strategy.
Plus, social media prenups and the curious timing of Tony Bates’s GoPro appointment.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Courtesy of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Which one of these things is not like the other?
A conservative Iranian court opened a case against instant messaging services WhatsApp and Instagram.
Is age really just a number among Silicon Valley CEOs?
Customers’ mobile expectations have shifted, and if you aren’t there for them in the moment of need, they’ll find another service that is.
That’s comparable to Instagram’s popularity.
The only barrier to WhatsApp’s future growth is a bloated product, argues Koum.
What are your favorite apps for messaging? Facebook would like to know for ... research purposes.
We’ll know when we know. Or when we don’t.
“My story starts in computer science class ...” Uh-oh.
The leaders of two of the world’s biggest Internet services join our October conference.
Is there anything you really need to learn from it?
Being one of the crazy ones is how we can change the world.
The company says the privacy tools it uses can help others avoid major security breaches.
We are wired for gossip, and it’s inevitable that products will arise to manipulate that basic impulse.
Gimmicks? Where we’re going, we don’t need gimmicks. ... But we’ll get bombarded by them anyway.
And the only thing people hate more than telecom companies is cable companies.
Show me the money -- later.
Marrying the anti-WhatsApp with the anti-App Store.
The outage comes three days after Facebook announced acquisition plans.
Re/coders take to the tube to discuss the big tech news of the week.