WhatsApp Co-Founder, Jan Koum Announces Departure From Facebook, Ads Could Come To WhatsApp Soon
[caption id="attachment_11259" align="alignnone" width="2025"] Whatsapp CEo Jan Koum during a Keynote conference as part of the first day of the Mobile World Congress 2013 at the Fira Gran Via complex on February 24, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world"s largest communication companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and gadgets. The show runs from February 24 - February 27. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) [/caption] WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum announced on Monday via a Facebook post that it was time to "move on." Even though he didn"t explicitly mention this in the post, it"s thinkable that the scandal with Facebook could be a motivating factor for him to take a bow. It is indeed a crucial time for Facebook after its outrage over the leak of about 85 million users. The WhatsApp messenger was built with a focus on privacy, a factor which Facebook doesn’t put into consider...