Reuters : WhatsApp tests business messaging tool

Admission to Y Combinator, founded in 2005, is highly competitive, and past participants include such companies as Airbnb and Dropbox. WhatsApp has not developed a business model in the three years since Facebook Inc bought it for a hefty $19 billion. WhatsApp is also surveying users about the extent to which they talk to businesses on WhatsApp, and whether they have ever received spam, according to the documents. An illustration photo shows the Whatsapp application logo on a mobile phone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2, 2016. The tests, which are being conducted with a handful of companies that are part of the Y Combinator startup incubator, are an important signal of how WhatsApp plans to make money from its massively popular service.

WhatsApp tests business chat tools in search for revenue

An illustration photo shows the Whatsapp application logo on a mobile phone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2, 2016.REUTERS/Nacho DoceSAN FRANCISCO WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service used by more than 1 billion people worldwide, is testing a system that would let businesses talk directly to WhatsApp users for the first time, according to communications about the project seen by Reuters.The tests, which are being conducted with a handful of companies that are part of the Y Combinator startup incubator, are an important signal of how WhatsApp plans to make money from its massively popular service.


WhatsApp tests business messaging toolSAN FRANCISCO: WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Facebook, is reportedly testing a system that would allow businesses to talk directly to its one billion users.According to communications about the project seen by Reuters, tests have begun with a handful of companies that are part of the Y Combinator start-up incubator.Airbnb and Dropbox are former associates of Y Combinator.


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