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WhatsApp

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959 articles decelerating

WhatsApp has appeared in 959 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2025Q2 with 30 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, Instagram, Meta, India.

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959
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Velocity
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Acceleration
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Coverage Timeline

2023-10-24
The Verge 4 related

Automattic plans to acquire Texts, a $15 per month messaging app that works with WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, iMessage, and more, for $50M

Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind …

2022-09-21
Forbes

Adobe's Figma retention package may be the biggest since Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014, exceeding deal packages from Auth0, LinkedIn, Mobileye, and Slack

a key player in the Figma deal, now on the Adobe side. Salesforce couldn't hold on to Tableau's Adam Selipsky, back as CEO at AWS. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Alex Konrad / @ale...

The Economic Times 7 related

WhatsApp announces an “expanded partnership” with Salesforce to let businesses manage their WhatsApp conversations with customers from the Salesforce platform

WhatsApp on Tuesday announced an ‘expanded partnership’ with Salesforce to get their business customers up and running on the messaging app.

2022-09-16
Bloomberg 18 related

Adobe plans to buy UI design and prototyping tool Figma for ~$20B, half cash and half stock; CEO Dylan Field will continue to lead Figma; ADBE closed down 16.8%

Today, we're announcing that Figma has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Adobe. TechCrunch : After the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets? Wall Street Journal : ...

2022-04-15
Bloomberg 44 related

Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to take Twitter private by acquiring all outstanding stock for $54.20 per share, in a cash deal worth ~$43B

not “cancel culture” — are ruining discourse Eugene Robinson / Washington Post : If Elon Musk wants Twitter, he's welcome to it Financial Times : How Elon Musk could fund his $43bn Twitter takeover Ga...

2021-06-17
Platformer 3 related

By acquiring promising VR games and software companies, Facebook seems to be cornering the VR market, reminiscent of its Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions

A recent shopping spree is giving some folks Instagram-in-2012 vibes  —  Imagine that, over the past year, Facebook had managed …

2021-04-13
TechCrunch 3 related

Sources: DealShare, an Indian social commerce startup initially focused on WhatsApp, raises $100M Series D led by Tiger Global, after its $21M Series C in Dec.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch :

2021-01-19
TechCrunch 3 related

Tencent-backed Hike, once India's answer to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it is shutting down its messaging app Sticker Chat

Manish Singh / TechCrunch :

2021-01-18
TechCrunch 4 related

Tencent-backed Hike, once India's answer to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it is shutting down its messaging app Sticker Chat

Manish Singh / TechCrunch :

2020-12-10
Bloomberg 1 related

A look at Facebook's plans to monetize WhatsApp, which makes virtually no money at present, by facilitating business transactions, a shift away from ads

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :

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WhatsApp has appeared in 752 Techmeme articles since January 2015, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communication on its... and FTC, in coalition with 46 state AGs, plus Guam and DC, sues Facebook, alleging Instagram.... Frequently covered alongside Facebook, Meta, Instagram, TechCrunch, and Android. Coverage has increasingly focused on regulation, safety themes.

Key Moments

2024Q2developer -8pts; research +8pts; funding -8pts
2024Q3enterprise -8pts; developer -8pts; research -8pts
2024Q4safety +12pts; developer +18pts; regulation +15pts

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