{"id":932355,"date":"2025-05-21T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932355"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:35:53","slug":"whatsapp-had-no-plans-to-compete-with-facebook-co-founder-brian-acton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/21\/whatsapp-had-no-plans-to-compete-with-facebook-co-founder-brian-acton\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp had no plans to compete with Facebook: Co-founder Brian Acton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete with Facebook before he sold the company to Mark Zuckerberg, a claim that bolsters Meta\u2019s defense as it faces federal antitrust allegations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had no ambition to build Facebook-like functionality like a feed or any Facebook-like features,\u201d Acton said Tuesday during testimony at a federal courthouse in Washington. He also said that WhatsApp could have stuck with a subscription business instead of selling targeted ads if the service had remained independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete with Facebook before he sold the company to Mark Zuckerberg, a claim that bolsters Meta\u2019s defense as it faces federal antitrust allegations. \u201cWe had no ambition to build Facebook-like functionality like a feed or any Facebook-like features,\u201d Acton said Tuesday during testimony at a federal courthouse in Washington. He also said that WhatsApp could have stuck with a subscription business instead of selling targeted ads if the service had remained independent.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932355","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=932355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}