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In February, Facebook said it would buy WhatsApp for about $16 billion in cash and stock. The deal is now valued at $19 billion.

Much like Snapchat, Blink helps users send content that can self-destruct as soon as it's consumed.

Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion, which currently has about 500 million active monthly users, compared to 355 million on WeChat.

The firm reported earnings per share of 25 cents on $2.5 billion of revenue, beating Wall Street estimates of 24 cents and $2.4 billion.

"If I cannot make money on handsets, I will not be in the handset business," BlackBerry CEO John Chen said.

Focus will be on the keyboard form-factor after the failed launch of the touchscreen Z10.

This isn’t the first time Facebook has acquired a tech business, but backers of the original Kickstarter are calling for the head of Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey.

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Every single company bought by Amazon, Google, Apple, Yahoo and Facebook in the last 15 years, in one interactive visualization.

After three years of civil war, many Syrians find that mindless cell-phone games provide much-needed distraction.

Voice calling would make WhatsApp more competitive to other mobile messaging apps that already feature voice calling.

Mxit, Kik and Viber are just a few WhatsApp competitors gaining popularity in global markets.

Facebook stock fell 5 percent Wednesday in after-hours trading and continued falling the next morning.

The WhatsApp team will get a nice payout from the Facebook deal, but it isn’t the only ones profiting from the purchase.

How will Facebook's latest purchase help the company spread its reach around the world and across devices?

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg said WhatsApp will “complement our existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools...."

Rumors circulated for months about a possible purchase of WhatsApp by Google, but Facebook stepped in with a monster offer.

BlackBerry released a major update to BBM for Android and iPhone on Thursday that allows users to make voice calls over data connections. How is it?

These tech companies have made the Internet possible for users without smartphones – which is no small market.

Mxit operates on an especially light data network, and you don't need a smartphone to use it.

Police in Laval, Quebec, arrested 10 teenage boys on suspicion of producing and distributing child pornography using Snapchat.

Many teens prefer to communicate on mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat, and Facebook has noticed.

Teens are gravitating away from Facebook and communicating more on mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp, LINE, Kik and others.

As it prepares to go public, Twitter considers competing with BBM, WhatsApp and Viber.

It has been more than three weeks since BlackBerry’s failed BBM for Android and iPhone launch. A company representative says the app’s developers continue to strive for a new launch date, but would not offer a timeline for the instant messaging app's release.

BlackBerry blames an unofficial version of BBM for Android making its way around filesharing sites for delays in offering BlackBerry Messenger on Google Play and Apple's App Store.

International Business Times offers the top 5 cross-platform messaging app alternatives to text (SMS) messaging, available for mobile and desktop devices, in light of BlackBerry's failure to introduce BlackBerry Messenger as promised.

Samsung Mobile's South African Twitter account confirmed a tweet yesterday that said the Korean handset maker's Galaxy devices will have a three-month exclusive on BBM for Android, but BlackBerry has denied the claim.

BlackBerry is expected to release BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, for the competing mobile operating systems Android and iOS in the next few days, and the company has sent out invitations for a Sept. 18 event. Could it be for a new handset or has the BBM for Android and iPhone release date arrived at last?