WhatsApp said the Moscow has fully blocked its services in Russia, to promote a state-sponsored 'super' app called Max. The move has impacted 100 million users. (Reuters / Thomas White / File photo) ...

(Bloomberg) --WhatsApp said the Russian government has moved to “fully block” the world’s most popular messaging service in the country as part of an effort to drive adoption of a new, state-sponsored ...

Russian regulators are pushing a state-developed app as an alternative to WhatsApp Russia has ordered a block on WhatsApp, as the Kremlin continues to tighten restrictions on messaging apps.

Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Millions of Russians were abruptly cut off from the encrypted WhatsApp messaging service on Wednesday afternoon ...

Google said it has disrupted the foreign cybercriminal group behind a text scam operation within 24 hours of filing its lawsuit. The crime syndicate is responsible for a massive SMS phishing, or ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

An environmental advocacy group has filed complaints under the Hatch Act against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Forest Service over what it described as “partisan” messaging ...

Independence Pass Foundation Executive Director Karin Teague knows how much people love Colorado’s public lands. Open May through October, the stretch of Highway 82 that spans the Continental Divide ...

To test it out, though, I had to find a cellular dead zone. T-Mobile estimates there are 500,000 square miles in the US with no cell coverage, so I left my home in Seattle to find one. After three ...

The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more features are on the way. The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more ...