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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.

2021-06-16
TechCrunch 2 related

DuckDuckGo says it raised $100M+ in “mainly secondary investment” in late 2020 from WhatsApp founder Brian Acton, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and others

Privacy tech continues cooking on gas.  To wit: Non-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo has just revealed that it beefed …

2021-01-17
The Verge 16 related

WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook

but what's the point? Yash Wate / TechPP : WhatsApp delays new privacy policy update after user backlash Tweets: @whatsapp : Thank you to everyone who's reached out. We're still working to counter any...

2020-02-14
Wired

Behind Signal's push to go mainstream by adding features like iPad support, ephemeral images and video, downloadable customizable stickers, and emoji reactions

The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream. Tweets: @a_greenberg , @nxthompson , @thevowel , @...

2018-09-26
Wall Street Journal 5 related

Source: in recent months, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives had begun preparing for the possibility that the Instagram co-founders would leave

WhatsApp Cofounder, Brian Acton Ought Put His Name To It Shona Ghosh / Business Insider : This 10-year Facebook loyalist is widely tipped to become Instagram's new CEO Karissa Bell / Mashable : Facebo...

Forbes 11 related

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talks about why he gave up $850M to quit Facebook early and his differences with Zuckerberg and Sandberg over monetization

hatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, 46, sits in a cafe of the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California, and the only way you'd guess …

2018-03-21
The Verge 33 related

Brian Acton, who cofounded WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for $16B, tweeted “It is time. #deletefacebook”

Facebook bought his app for $16 billion  —  In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion, making its co-founders — Jan Koum and Brian Acton — very wealthy men.

2018-02-22
Wired 14 related

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton invests $50M in newly-formed Signal Foundation, a non-profit that will maintain Signal app, and joins as its executive chairman

IN THE FOUR or so years since it launched, end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has become the security community's gold standard …

2017-09-13
Recode 12 related

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton says he's leaving after eight years, and will start a nonprofit at “the intersection of nonprofit, technology and communications”

Acton has a net worth of $6.5 billion.  —  WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving the company to start his own non-profit.

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