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Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, raises $3.7M seed
Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. That’s Skiff, in a nutshell. Skiff is a document editor with a similar look…
WhatsApp’s Brian Acton to talk Signal Foundation and leaving Facebook at Disrupt SF
“We give them the power. That’s the bad part. We buy their products. We sign up for these websites. Delete Facebook, right?” That’s WhatsApp founder Brian Acton’s most recent quote…
Facebook’s ex-CSO, Alex Stamos, defends its decision to inject ads in WhatsApp
Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer, who left the company this summer to take up a role in academia, has made a contribution to what’s sometimes couched as a debate…
WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, says Facebook used him to get its acquisition past EU regulators
WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, who left Facebook a year ago — before going on to publicly bite the hand that fed him, by voicing support for the #DeleteFacebook movement (and donating $50M to…
WhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 people
WhatsApp has added a much-requested new feature after it began to allow users to make group voice and video calls. It’s been just over three years since the company, which is…
After selling his company to Facebook for $19 billion, Brian Acton joins #deleteFacebook
Brian Acton, the co-founder of messaging service WhatsApp (which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion) is now joining the chorus of the #deletefacebook movement. https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/976231995846963201 A tipster alerted us…
Signal expands into the Signal Foundation with $50M from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton
Perhaps the most surprising thing I learned about Signal when I spoke with Moxie Marlinspike, the app’s creator, last year at Disrupt, was that it was essentially running on a…
