Facebook has confirmed the messaging app will feature ads at its annual Marketing Summit in the Netherlands.

The hashtags #FacebookDown, #instagramdown and #whatsappdown were all trending on Twitter.

Irish WhatsApp users are being warned about a phishing scam that could soon hit the messaging app here.

WhatsApp chief executive Jan Koum is breaking ties with his company's parent, Facebook, amid a privacy scandal that has dogged the social network for weeks.

WhatsApp is raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 across Europe.

Pressure is mounting on Facebook to explain how a British firm used data from 50 million of its users without permission.

UK researchers are using information sent via WhatsApp to help predict deadly landslides in Colombia.

Medics helped develop a 'WhatsApp Doc' messaging service to enable hospital doctors to securely contact colleagues with questions about patient care.

Many users of WhatsApp have received a message over the last number of days, warning of a malicious piece of software that can hack your phone in 10 seconds.

The sentencing of a woman who forwarded a video clip of a child being raped through WhatsApp has been adjourned until March.

WhatsApp users were up in arms on Friday morning as the messaging service went down across the globe for 45 minutes.

The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has welcomed the “greater transparency” of Whatsapp, after the messaging service published new ‘frequently asked questions’ (FAQs) relating to the sharing of its users’ data.

Facebook has been slapped with a €110 million fine after the EU's anti-trust watchdog.

Messaging service WhatsApp has returned after suffering an outage that cut off millions of users around the world.

Facebook’s instant messaging app, WhatsApp, is mulling a foray into digital payment services in India, its first such offering globally, and has advertised to hire a digital transactions lead in the country.

Latest: Simon Coveney has told Fine Gael TDs and Senators to 'back off' the Taoiseach, over the party leadership. .

Facebook has agreed to hold off collecting data from people who use WhatsApp.

German data protection authorities have ordered Facebook to delete data - including phone numbers - the social media giant has received from its subsidiary WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is to start sharing user data with Facebook.

The telecoms industry is in a period of huge upheaval that will see $300bn (€260bn) of revenue wiped from traditional telecoms across the world in the coming decade.

WhatsApp has said it is hoping to agree a deal with Brazilian officials to overturn a temporary ban on using it.

If ‘last seen’ wasn’t bad enough, let the paranoia begin …

WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging application, is used by more than 600 million people to talk to each other.

The Irish exchange is back in the big time, with the US also booming again, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Facebook is placing a $19bn (€13.87bn) bet on reaching its next billion mobile users with the acquisition of WhatsApp, the messaging service that lets people send texts, photos, and videos, on their smartphones.