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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?

BlackBerry said it submitted an iPhone version of BBM, or BlackBerry Messenger, to Apple for review in late August, previously stating that a BBM client would be released sometime this summer for iPhone and Android devices.

BBM for Android and iPhone is coming before summer's end, according to a BlackBerry spokesman.

In Saudi Arabia's ongoing war on social media, an official warned Twitter users that they have "lost this world."

WhatsApp denies the rumors of selling itself to Google, leaving Google wondering what it will do about mobile messaging.

Google is rumored to be negotiating a $1 billion acquisition of popular messaging service, WhatsApp.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has opened its messenger application to mobile users without active accounts with the popular social network, beginning with Android owners.

A new study warns that Android users may be leaking personal information due to security oversights in popular smartphone apps.

Facebook is accused of accessing text messages of its users but the company has denied the charge by stating that it does not read the content and that the report is misleading.

Apple finally released its highly anticipated iPhone 4S on Oct. 14, which comes with its new iOS 5 operating system and some 200 new features. The iPhone 4S also includes Siri voice control, Reminders and more.

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