What's wrong with Facebook? The rhythm does not match So the erosion tunes. Its popular messaging service is stepping down from WhatsApp, its chief executive officer Jan Koum.
John Cumm and Brian Acton founded WhatsApp in 2009. The information was released in a BBC report on Tuesday.
Jann Koum wrote in a Facebook post, "I'm going to give some time for the work I enjoy doing outside of technology."
A report by the Washington Post on Monday said that Koum was not convinced that WhatsApp plans were contradictory to Facebook. WhatsApp is now managed under Facebook.
Koum complains that the user's personal information from WhatsApp is being taken on Facebook and the value of the encryption of WhatsApp is being weakened.
In a statement, Koum said that he had established WhatsApp with almost a decade ago. The journey of some of the best people was with them. Now is the time for him to move from here.
Koum said, "The WhatsApp Team is much stronger than before and it will do great work. But I would love to do it out of WhatsApp.
Stanford's Alumni Brian Acton and Ukrainian immigrant Koumm founded WhatsApp in 2009 and sold it to Facebook for $ 1,900 million in 2014. Brian Acton and John Koum worked in Yahoo before creating WhatsApp
So much so that they were getting information protection and work independence from Facebook on WhatsApp from Facebook. Before selling to Facebook, they also provided information protection requirements.
Acton left WhatsApp last November and since then there have been criticisms of Facebook. In March last year, he started a program called Haschtag DeliThEsBook. After the Cambridge Analykt scandal of user information leaks from Facebook, he started the program with the social network, which triggered a lot of turmoil.
From that time on, Facebook acknowledged that 870 million users have lost their information, which has happened in the election campaign.
Koum and Acton were against the commercialization of WhatsApp. However, ads are not shown on WhatsApp.
Mark Zuckerberg responded to Koom's withdrawal Commenting on Koum's post, he wrote that he (Zuckerberg) is grateful for what he taught him about encryption with encryption. WhatsApp has shown the ability to return power to the general public with the central system. This policy will remain in the case of WhatsApp.
Currently there are more than 150 million WhatsApp users. It's the world's largest messaging service.