Category: Signal App

Signal Founder Stepping Down as Company CEO

Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike has announced that he will be stepping down as CEO in a move that some tech analysts say could be related to the rise of MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency in which Marlinspike is a technical adviser. “After a decade or more, it’s difficult to overstate how important Signal is to me, but…


Telegram Messaging App Gained 70 Million New Users Amid Facebook Outage, Founder Says

Messaging app Telegram says it gained 70 million new users during the widespread outage across a suite of Facebook’s social media and messaging services. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov said in a statement that it saw a “record increase in user registration and activity” when Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by…