WhatsApp does about face, will serve ads in Facebook-owned app

Ars Technica
By Tom MendelsohnAug 26, 2016, 8:58 am107 pts
(credit: Andrew Cunningham) WhatsApp will do what it once said would never happen: let businesses use the messaging app to serve ads to users. In a move that was inevitable once it was acquired by Facebook for $22 billion in 2014, WhatsApp has put its users on notice that it will soon begin sharing their phone…

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