The popular messaging service WhatsApp today announced that it will stop collecting your payment of one dollar per year thanks to the benefits of its purchase by the giant social networks Facebook .
“The purchase allowed us to focus on growing and not think about making money,” said Jan Koum, Co-Founder of WhatsApp, during Internet conference held DLD in Munich. The announcement was also published in WhatsApp blog .
The application will also free advertising. The message service has more than 900 million users worldwide, about twice as it did when it was acquired by Facebook.
The operation allowed the popular “app” access to infrastructure the largest social network in the world and implement such option voice chat, a step without Facebook, would have demanded a significant investment itself.
Koum explained that a possible next step for WhatsApp would advance the communication between companies and individuals. . However, that’s one of the strengths of Facebook Messenger , the second messaging service Facebook with 800 million users
The network distinguished so far both profiles: if WhatsApp offered an austere platform for the simple exchange of messages, Messenger, especially in the United States, including all options as payment services or carpool search.
Koum clarified that that direction is up now only one option being studied. Two years ago, the executive explained that charging a subscription was how to ensure the independence of WhatsApp.
A few weeks after the purchase by Facebook, with consequent capital available in the hands of Koum announced and your company. At the same time, he said today Koum, the company has managed to maintain its independence within the group Facebook.
The development of software, for example, still occurs on its own platform. During the conference in Munich, Koum again rejected outright the possibility of suspending the encryption of messages if requested by the authorities in an investigation.
“Talking about ‘backdoors’ does not lead anywhere, because there will include ‘back doors’ in our software, “he said. Enabling such access for researchers, he added, could also be discovered for criminal purposes.
In December, half day WhatsApp was blocked throughout Brazil. A court so the company tried to deliver data to assist in a criminal investigation. Sao Paulo court considered too far and stopped the blockade, which should last two days .
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