• Send Us A Tip
  • Calling all Tech Writers
  • Advertise
Friday, July 11, 2025
  • Login
TechStory
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
TechStory
No Result
View All Result
Home Business

Amazon acquires top-secret messaging app, Wickr

by Chhavideep Singh
June 26, 2021
in Business, Popular, Startups, Tech, World
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
Wickr
TwitterWhatsappLinkedin
Wickr logo
Source: PCMag India

Amazon is one of the most innovative technology companies in the world and one of its primary strategies to growth is through acquisitions. Recently on Friday, the e-commerce giant has announced to have acquired a top-secret messaging platform, Wickr.

You might also like

Audio Streaming Showdown: Delhi High Court Halts Kuku FM Episodes After Pocket FM’s Legal Firestorm

OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive’s Hardware Startup in $6.5 Billion Deal

Microsoft Saves $500M with AI in Call Centers

Wickr is a San Francisco-based encrypted messaging platform that allows its users to send and receive top-secret messages, videos, images, files, audio, and other content, completely encrypted for maximum security and privacy.

This move by Amazon is a significant one for Wickr as a change in ownership brings a lot of changes in the internal workings of the company. According to sources, Wickr will now be a part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and serve Amazon customers with its popular encrypted messaging service.

Founded back in 2011 by Chris Howell, Robert Statica, Nico Sell, and Kara Coppa, Wickr offers a free encrypted, top-secret messaging platform to its users that they use to send and receive messages. The app aims to provide a free and easy way to users to be able to communicate through messages without a trace. It is a top-secret messaging services in all its senses, available for free and most commonly used by journalists to communicate the latest news highlights without leaking the information, general public for any business communications or political communications and it is also notable to say that even criminals might be using the service to communicate their missions through this encrypted messaging app.

As mentioned in a report by Vice, Wickr also offers a paid version of its services where it provides different products including a platform geared specifically for military communications. Stephen Schmidt, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Amazon Web Services commented on this acquisition by saying that AWS is very excited to have acquired Wickr which is an innovative company that has managed to develop the industry’s most secure and end-to-end encrypted communications technology. The public sector uses Wickr’s services for varied reasons and a diverse range of missions, from securely communicating business strategies to communication with office-based employees to providing service members at the tactical edge of top-secret, encrypted communications.

Schmidt further added, Wickr keeps all communications between employees and business partners, private while still remaining compliant with all regulatory requirements, as mentioned in a report by The Vice.

The company says that it is excited to be a part of Amazon Web Services and is proud to have created a highly trusted, secure communication solutions for messaging, file sharing, video conferencing, and more. Wickr, since its launch, a decade ago, has grown to serve organizations across a wide range of industries, all around the world, and together, as a part of Amazon, the company is looking forward to taking its solutions to the next level for all customers and partners.

Tags: amazonAmazon Web ServicesWickr
Tweet54SendShare15
Previous Post

Virgin Galactic secures FAA approval to commercialize space tourism

Next Post

8 Beginner-Friendly Design Jobs a Student Can Score

Chhavideep Singh

Hi! I'm Chhavideep, If you like reading about technology, business and start-ups, you've come to the right place. Catch me: [email protected]

Recommended For You

Audio Streaming Showdown: Delhi High Court Halts Kuku FM Episodes After Pocket FM’s Legal Firestorm

by Ishaan Negi
July 11, 2025
0
Audio Streaming Showdown: Delhi High Court Halts Kuku FM Episodes After Pocket FM’s Legal Firestorm

In the latest development in India's intensifying audio-streaming rivalry, the Delhi High Court has stepped in to pause the release of new episodes from five of Kuku FM’s...

Read more

OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive’s Hardware Startup in $6.5 Billion Deal

by Sneha Singh
July 11, 2025
0
OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's Hardware Startup in $6.5 Billion Deal

OpenAI has formally closed its blockbuster acquisition of io Products Inc., the AI hardware startup co-founded by Apple legendary designer Jony Ive. The roughly $6.5 billion deal is...

Read more

Microsoft Saves $500M with AI in Call Centers

by Sneha Singh
July 11, 2025
0
Microsoft Saves $500M with AI in Call Centers

Microsoft quietly achieved something incredible with artificial intelligence last year it saved more than $500 million in business operations alone. The technology company's senior commercial officer, Judson Althoff,...

Read more
Next Post
8 Beginner-Friendly Design Jobs a Student Can Score

8 Beginner-Friendly Design Jobs a Student Can Score

Please login to join discussion

Techstory

Tech and Business News from around the world. Follow along for latest in the world of Tech, AI, Crypto, EVs, Business Personalities and more.
reach us at [email protected]

Advertise With Us

Reach out at - [email protected]

BROWSE BY TAG

#Crypto #howto 2024 acquisition AI amazon Apple bitcoin Business China cryptocurrency e-commerce electric vehicles Elon Musk Ethereum facebook flipkart funding Gaming Google India Instagram Investment ios iPhone IPO Market Markets Meta Microsoft News NFT samsung Social Media SpaceX startup startups tech technology Tesla TikTok trend trending twitter US

© 2024 Techstory.in

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to

© 2024 Techstory.in

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?