NEW DELHI - Brian Acton, co-founder of popular messaging app WhatsApp, Feb 24 called on IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to discuss ways in which the Mountain View, California based company can contribute to India's vision for digital commerce. Highlighting the country's importance, Acton said WhatsApp hopes to contribute more to "India's vision for digital commerce in future". "India is a very important country to us,
and we're proud to have 200 million people who use WhatsApp to connect with their friends, family and communities. We build every WhatsApp feature to be simple, reliable, and secure, and this vision is in line with what Digital India promises to achieve," he added. Acton said the company will continue to invest to help more people across India connect to its platform.
Acton, who was on a one-day trip to India, addressed students at IIT-Delhi, along with WhatsApp Head of Business, Neeraj Arora.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has almost become the default messaging application for people in countries like India and Brazil. In India, it competes with the likes of Hike, Snapchat and Viber.
India is also the biggest market for WhatsApp. Of its over one billion users, about 200 million are here. WhatsApp had said it would focus on rolling out commercial messaging this year for businesses as it looks to tap into enterprises for monetizing its platform. Last year, WhatsApp had stopped charging USD 1 per year subscription fee to go completely free for its users across the world. WhatsApp has just rolled out a new update, introducing SnapChat-like features to turn its platform into a sort of social media app. Similar to Facebook, the app now features 'Status', which appears as a separate tab within the app. This allows users to share GIF, videos and photos with their friends for 24 hours after which the content vanishes.
Acton, who was on a one-day trip to India, addressed students at IIT-Delhi, along with WhatsApp Head of Business, Neeraj Arora.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has almost become the default messaging application for people in countries like India and Brazil. In India, it competes with the likes of Hike, Snapchat and Viber.
India is also the biggest market for WhatsApp. Of its over one billion users, about 200 million are here. WhatsApp had said it would focus on rolling out commercial messaging this year for businesses as it looks to tap into enterprises for monetizing its platform. Last year, WhatsApp had stopped charging USD 1 per year subscription fee to go completely free for its users across the world. WhatsApp has just rolled out a new update, introducing SnapChat-like features to turn its platform into a sort of social media app. Similar to Facebook, the app now features 'Status', which appears as a separate tab within the app. This allows users to share GIF, videos and photos with their friends for 24 hours after which the content vanishes.
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