Signal wants to build an alternative to tech's advertising business model.

Encrypted messaging app Signal continues to see spiking downloads in the wake of the messaging scandal that saw The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg added to a group chat where high-ranking ...

Q: What’s the difference between Signal and WhatsApp, and should I switch? A: Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging platform to many nontechnical users ...

Signal is launching usernames, the company announced today. Up until now, you have had to give someone your phone number to chat with them on Signal. Now you can create a unique username that you can ...

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Amid the fallout regarding a Signal chat among senior national security officials that inadvertently included The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, tech expert Ken Colburn of Data Doctors ...

Encrypted-messenger app, Signal, has updated its video call offerings and is now pushing itself as an alternative to Zoom and Meet. The app now has a “Calls” tab for video calls. With it, users can ...

Signal serves tens of millions of users who are drawn to its end-to-end encrypted messaging platform. Yet it only has around 50 full-time employees, according to a report from the nonprofit released ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — The messaging app “Signal” is making headlines again, after military plans were leaked in a group chat. The app didn’t fail, but did exactly what it’s supposed to ...

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