WhatsApp has just launched its own in-app payments system for India, which has the potential to be a huge deal — the messaging service has over 200 million Indian users, representing the majority of smartphone owners in the country. Paytm, India's largest mobile payments company, also has more … Read More

BlackBerry Messenger was the iMessage of the late 2000s, especially since it was initially exclusive to the company's own hardware. BBM expanded to iOS and Android in 2013, but it has become mostly irrelevant thanks to competitors like WhatsApp and iMessage. BlackBerry is now suing Facebook … Read More

BlackBerry is suing Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp over allegations that the Social Media firm's messaging apps infringe on its preexisting copyrights for messaging apps. The firm alleges that concepts in its BBM (Blackberry Messenger) app have been reproduced in Facebook's messaging apps, … Read More

TORONTO— BlackBerry Ltd. BB 0.40% claimed in a lawsuit Tuesday that Facebook Inc. FB -0.34% and its WhatsApp and Instagram units have infringed its patents and swiped intellectual property from its BlackBerry Messenger technology. In its 117-page court filing in U.S. federal court in Los Angeles, … Read More

BlackBerry filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps, arguing that they copied technology and features from BlackBerry Messenger. Litigation over patent infringement is part of BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen's strategy for making money for the … Read More

The latest lawsuit from BlackBerry claims that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (all of which are services owned by Facebook) have infringed on seven patents. BlackBerry is asking for monetary damages “including an enhancement of damages on account of Defenants' willful infringement." More … Read More

Ms Peaston said they were known to be using messaging apps such as WhatsApp to communicate with would-be victims. Cifas is launching a 'Don't Be Fooled' campaign alongside UK Finance that aims to deter young people – in particular, students – from becoming money mules. UK Finance added: … Read More

If you have received a WhatsApp message claiming that according to "new legislation passed in Parliament", anyone caught using a mobile phone while the car engine is idle will lose his driving licence for three months, dismiss it. No such law has been passed in Parliament. The message claims that … …

It looks like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram could be in a bit of hot water over their messaging services. BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit against the services, now all owned by Facebook, in a Los Angeles court, claiming that the messaging services infringe on patents owned by BlackBerry. It hasn't … …

WhatsApp comes with a ton of awesome features that make it the go-to messaging app for millions of people around the world. Among these is the ingeniously simple Read Receipts that let you know your message has been viewed. If you want to read a message without alerting the sender, …