Mobile Minute:
Facebook is following up on its decision to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp with a plan to sunset its own messaging feature. The social media giant is telling users that soon when they try to send a message through Facebook they will be redirected to download the company’s separate messaging app. Facebook’s mobile messaging app is called Messenger. To date, the company has not announced plans to merge Messenger with WhatsApp.
Mobile messaging is one of the fastest-growing mobile apps, and is rapidly incorporating new functionality, including pictures, video, and even funds transfer. This week mobile messaging startup Rebtel announced that more than $1 million has been transferred between users of its Sendly app.
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