{"id":1016304,"date":"2026-06-23T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016304"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:16:05","slug":"metas-india-bet-kunal-shah-to-head-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/metas-india-bet-kunal-shah-to-head-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s India bet: Kunal Shah to head WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms is making one of its most significant bets on India yet, investing $900 million in fintech startup Cred while appointing its founder Kunal Shah as the next head of WhatsApp, a move that highlights the country\u2019s growing importance to the social media giant\u2019s ambitions in payments, commerce and artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>The transaction gives Meta a roughly 20% stake in Bengaluru-based Cred and values the company at $4.5 billion. But the bigger development is Shah\u2019s elevation to one of the most influential product leadership roles in global technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms is making one of its most significant bets on India yet, investing $900 million in fintech startup Cred while appointing its founder Kunal Shah as the next head of WhatsApp, a move that highlights the country\u2019s growing importance to the social media giant\u2019s ambitions in payments, commerce and artificial intelligence. The transaction gives Meta a roughly 20% stake in Bengaluru-based Cred and values the company at $4.5 billion. But the bigger development is Shah\u2019s elevation to one of the most influential product leadership roles in global technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016320,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016304\/revisions\/1016320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}