“Messenger isn’t exactly beating WhatsApp, Instagram was growing so much faster than us that we had to buy them for $1 billion,” Zuckerberg wrote in a November 2012 email to then-Chief ...

Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov is going directly after Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp, accusing the Meta-owned messaging app of stealing features and launching smear campaigns. In a post on his ...

Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, as the world’s largest social network looks for ways to boost its popularity, especially ...

Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta’s Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions in an FTC antitrust trial, highlighting competition with TikTok and YouTube FTC claims Meta built a social monopoly. Zuckerberg ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) grilled Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday over dozens of emails and messages he exchanged with other executives in the lead-up to the social media giant’s ...

WASHINGTON — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the witness stand on the first day of a historic antitrust trial to defend his company against allegations it illegally monopolized the social media ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the company in court Monday as the FTC's landmark antitrust trial seeks to break up its $1.37 trillion empire over alleged monopolistic control of the social ...

Benzinga. Zuckerberg Defends Meta’s Acquisitions Of Instagram And WhatsApp. Posted: April 15, 2025 | Last updated: April 15, 2025. Mark Zuckerberg testified in a landmark antitrust trial to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2012, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people thought he had lost his marbles.

WhatsApp has a robust user base of over 500 million in India, although its in-app service, WhatsApp Pay, is restricted to only 100 million users by regulators. España. India. Italia.