Two high-profile board members at the anonymous social media app Whisper have departed in recent months amid an unusual effort by the start-up’s co-founders to take back control of the company. Since ...

Whisper networks are informal channels that women use to warn each other about sexual harassment, abuse or assault. The reason they work isn't because they are secret—they work because they are ...

At my high school, most real online communication happened between private blogs. Between classes, my friends and I set up password-protected Livejournals, on which we’d spill our gossip about crushes ...

Not many start-ups hit profitability from the get-go. The Los Angeles-based developer of the Whisper app might be the exception. The iOS app, developed by childhood friends and neighbors Michael ...