{"id":17641,"date":"2022-01-11T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=17641"},"modified":"2022-01-17T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:09:29","slug":"whatsapp-co-founder-to-become-signals-interim-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/whatsapp-co-founder-to-become-signals-interim-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Co-founder To Become Signal\u2019s Interim CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Signal founder and CEO Moxie Marlinspike announced his plans to step down as the company&#8217;s CEO in a blog post on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a new year, and I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pointed out that WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton will serve as CEO on an interim basis. Marlinspike will remain on Signal&#8217;s board while he looks for someone to fill the CEO position permanently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marlinspike started the non-profit Signal Foundation with Acton in 2018, which oversees the Signal app. That was after Acton left WhatsApp, a messaging platform he founded in 2009 and sold to Facebook in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Signal&#8217;s website, Acton left WhatsApp in 2017 due to differences over the use of customer data and targeted advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signal, an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, became popular after being backed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and whistleblower and privacy advocate Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/whatsapp-co-founder-acton-named-signals-interim-ceo-2022-01-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signal founder and CEO Moxie Marlinspike announced his plans to step down as the company&#8217;s CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17684,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17641\/revisions\/17684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}