Crunch Report: Prince returns to Spotify

Today’s Stories  Prince returns to Spotify and Napster this weekend WhatsApp now supports two-step authentication Amazon’s…

WhatsApp now supports two-step verification

 WhatsApp has rolled out two-step verification to all of its user base, the company quietly announced…

WhatsApp tests real-time location sharing in its app

 Facebook may be distancing itself from location-sharing between friends in its own app, but Facebook-owned WhatsApp…

How WhatsApp is fighting spam after its encryption rollout

 WhatsApp proved itself to be the most YOLO-crypto company of 2016 when it turned on end-to-end…

Security researchers call for Guardian to retract false WhatsApp “backdoor” story

 A thirty-strong group of security researchers have co-signed an open letter calling for the Guardian to…

Encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp denies “backdoor” claim

 A security issue has been flagged in the hugely popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp that could…

Europe proposes expanding telco data privacy rules to WhatsApp, Facebook et al

 The European Commission has set out proposals for updating rules which govern the use of personal…

5G promises to transform the world again

 We may be on the cusp of a new, simpler world.  From the current era of…