Mobile messenger service WhatsApp experienced widespread technical disruptions on Tuesday.Users of the service in many countries reported on Twitter and other channels that they...

Brazil’s central bank said Tuesday it had ordered Visa and Mastercard to suspend a joint project with WhatsApp to roll out digital payments within the popular messaging service, over fears it would be anti-competitive.

Facebook on Monday added a digital payments feature to its WhatsApp messaging service, starting in Brazil but with an eye to expanding around the world.

Africa’s most popular messaging platform, WhatsApp has reached a 2 billion global users milestone, rising from the 1.5 billion recorded two years ago. The achievement comes just weeks after its parent company, Facebook, disclosed that it had amassed 2.5 billion users on its platform.

The United Nations has stopped its officials from using WhatsApp as a means of communications since June 2019 following concerns that there might have been an hack on the phone of Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos the year before.