According to people familiar with internal discussions, the billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent, Facebook, over the popular messaging service's strategy and Facebook's attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption.

Koum, who sold WhatsApp to Facebook for more than $19 billion (roughly Rs. 1.26 lakh crores) in 2014, also wants to step down from Facebook's board of directors. The date of his departure isn't known.

Instagram seems to be working to bring some massive improvements to users for refined and better sharing experience with new features.

The social media platform is reportedly testing mute button, slow-mo recording and more.

A Twitter user @wongmjane posted few pictures of the various tests Instagram has conducted. Wong is a computer science student who looked through the app's code.

Amazon.com Inc’s growing business of selling space on its site to merchants helped it double profits on Thursday, and some see the move as a step toward taking advertising dollars from Google and Facebook Inc.

With $2 billion or less of advertising revenue, Amazon is dwarfed by Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook, often called an internet duopoly, but it is growing rapidly, may be outselling ads on Twitter Inc and Snapchat, and it has advantages that other contenders lack.

Amazon has users’ purchase data and is aware what shoppers need, said Jason Damata, founder of Fabric Media, which advises companies on marketing and business strategy.

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 reportedly got certified by China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (CMIIT). The certification shows there are two variants of the phone, which could be the two chipsets— Exynos and Qualcomm. As per a report on LetsGoDigital, the two variants have been certified, but there’s no additional information given. The models listed are SM-N9600 and SM-N9608.

After briefly appearing during February in a limited quantity, HP’s first Windows on ARM PC, the Envy x2, is finally back to pre-order for $999.

It’s the result of a new relationship between Qualcomm and Microsoft to provide Windows 10 devices relying on Qualcomm’s ARM-based processors. It’s a departure from using the typical x86-based processors manufactured by Intel and AMD, creating a new “always connected” family of products.

EU lawmakers and member states on Thursday struck a preliminary deal that will allow countries to force online streaming services including Netflix and Amazon’s video service to help fund European films and TV shows. The new law extends the European Union’s broadcasting rules to online video services and includes a quota of 30 percent for European works on video-on-demand platforms, the European Parliament said.