Misleading Security Claims

Tech blogger John Gruber has slammed Google over its claims that its text-messaging app, Google Messages, ensures "conversations are end-to-end encrypted."

Keeping the spooks out of everything

A group of former Skype technologists, backed by the co-founder of the messaging platform, come up with a new version of its own messaging service with end-to-end encryption for all conversations, including video.

But use is going up

Data from Juniper Research has shown that the messaging market will decline from $113.5bn in 2014 to $112.9bn in 2019.