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There are now ads on WhatsApp

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago03 mins

After seven years since its initial announcement, Meta has finally started rolling out advertisements on WhatsApp, visible exclusively within the “Updates” tab. The company assures users who primarily use the app for personal chats with family and friends that their experience will remain unchanged. This also applies to two other new features: channel subscriptions and…

WhatsApp founders hated ads – Meta is adding them anyway

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago09 mins

It’s hard to think of a more extraordinary business deal than Facebook’s US$19-billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February 2014. Its creators were outliers. With a lean staff of just a few dozen people, they had no marketing department, no sign on the door and had spent zero cents from their sole investor, Sequoia Capital. But…