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 he might be worth $3.6 billion is the $20 tip he briskly ...

Mark Zuckerberg just made these two guys you’ve never heard of very rich. Jan Koum and Brian Acton, founders of WhatsApp, are the self-described “yin and yang” of the hugely popular ...

The WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton jumped on the #DeleteFacebook hashtag on Tuesday. The hashtag formed amid reports that the data-analytics company Cambridge Analytica harvested data from ...

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton left Facebook Inc. last year. Now he’s saying others should do the same. In a tweet Tuesday, Action said: “It is time. #deletefacebook,” referencing the ...

See how we rate products and services to help you make smart decisions with your money. Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, has always known how to make strides in Silicon Valley. Most recently ...

Brian Acton, a co-founder of WhatsApp, has broken his silence about leaving Facebook three years after his company was acquired for $16 billion. In an explosive interview with Forbes, Acton ...

Brian Acton is crossing paths again with Facebook. Over more than a decade of building and operating WhatsApp, the company’s co-founder first competed against and then sold his instant messaging ...

Brian Acton, who ran WhatsApp’s engineering teams, announced his departure Tuesday after eight years at the company. “I have decided to move on and start a new chapter in my life,” he wrote ...

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has also joined as the foundation's executive chairman, his first new role since leaving WhatsApp last fall. And Acton's not only devoting the next phase of his ...

“There’s a global education that’s happening,” says Brian Acton, who left WhatsApp in 2018 and now chairs the nonprofit Signal Foundation, which promotes open source, end-to-end encryption ...