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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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Acceleration
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Coverage Timeline

2026-02-16
Implicator.ai 57 related

In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC”

Mark Zuckerberg needed ten minutes.  He was finishing code.  —  Peter Steinberger had called him on WhatsApp without scheduling anything.

2025-01-07
Bloomberg 17 related

Meta elects new board directors: UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White, former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and Exor CEO John Elkann

Is a Choke Button Coming Soon? Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller : Major Trump Ally Dana White Joins Meta's Board As Zuck Sheds Left-Wing Bias Clyde Hughes / UPI : Meta names Dana White, two others t...

2024-10-17
Financial Times 23 related

Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using $25 meal credits to buy household items, as it restructures WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs teams

The terminations took place last week, just days before the $1.5tn social media company separately began restructuring certain …

2023-12-10
New York Times 17 related

Sources detail what happened at OpenAI in the build-up to Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other

the OpenAI chief scientist who helped fire Sam Altman then backtracked—should jump ship for xAI or Tesla Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI's Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions Gary Marcus /...

2022-10-20
The Verge 2 related

An interview with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on competition, RCS, government pressure to break encryption, what it's like to hire a new CEO, and more

Signal messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp.  Here's how.  —  Meredith Whittaker is the president of Signal …

2022-09-22
Moneycontrol 2 related

WhatsApp confirms Manesh Mahatme, who led its Indian payments business, has stepped down after 18 months; a source says Mahatme plans to rejoin Amazon

Mahatme's resignation comes at a time when WhatsApp's mobile payments business has failed to take off in a significant fashion in India

2022-01-11
Signal Blog 22 related

Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike steps down; WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton will act as the interim CEO as the search for a permanent replacement begins

It's a new year, and I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal.  —  I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade.

2021-12-08
Bloomberg

Meta restructures its research department, bringing ~50 employees from teams like WhatsApp and Instagram into a group led by research head Pratiti Raychoudhury

Bloomberg : Tweets: @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , and @mer__edith Tweets: Dr. Sarah T. Roberts / @ubiquity75 : Probably an unpopular opinion among my peers, but “greater acc...

2021-07-09
CNBC 13 related

Instacart hires Fidji Simo, the head of Facebook's app and one of the highest-ranking female executives at Facebook, as its new CEO starting August 2

an ex-Facebook exec — hints at post-IPO ambitions Michelle Cheng / Quartz : Instacart will go public under a new CEO hired from Facebook Tweets: Deirdre Bosa / @dee_bosa : 🚨BREAKING: instacart taps Fi...

2020-05-22
The Verge 13 related

Zuckerberg: Facebook could get to about half of staff working remotely permanently in 5-10 years and will be the “most forward-leaning company on remote work”

don't shoot the messenger. Fili-Perf / @fabrantes : This is big coming from Facebook, it has never been a remote friendly company. I'm loving this trend of increased decentralization. https://twitter....

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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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