Highlights - Whats up WhatsApp? 2 Years After
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Says Facebook backing accelerates growth and lets the team reuse Facebook infrastructure to ship features like voice calls and a web client; drops the $1/year fee because many users lack credit cards or banks; plans to build paid tools for businesses after seeing small Indian shops take orders and sell chocolates over WhatsApp; partnered with Open Whisper Systems and is rolling out end-to-end encryption now on recent Android builds, aiming for full global rollout in a few months.
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