Facebook aims to monetise WhatsApp by allowing businesses to contact their clients via the platform, even sell them products directly using the service as they already do in India. — AFP
PARIS: The popular messaging app WhatsApp asked its some two billion users on Jan 7 to accept new terms that will allow it to share more information with its parent company Facebook and roll out advertising and e-commerce.
The update sparked criticism among users as they must accept the changes or see their access to the service – which also allows encrypted voice and video calls – cut off from Feb 8.
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