send A message from Instagram to WhatsApp might soon be possible. Facebook is planning a joint technical platform for its various chat services. So far, the systems were separated from each other.
The Online network confirmed at the weekend compared to the “New York Times” and the “Financial Times” that there are Considerations, to enable the Sending of encrypted messages between its services. The company is working on it, “to make it easier to reach friends and family network, across departments,” said a Facebook spokeswoman. Currently there are internal discussions about how best to proceed.
The users are to be offered pursuant to the plans, while still different Apps. The applications would run on a common technical infrastructure, wrote to the two Newspapers, citing the person Involved.
message from Instagram to WhatsApp
On the common technical platform according to the Reports, in addition to WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the communication function of the photo service Instagram. In the future, you could send then you may receive a message, for example, directly from Instagram to WhatsApp.
The plan will be driven by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was according to the Newspapers. The founders of WhatsApp and Instagram, which were able to operate after the Acquisition by Facebook, initially largely independent, had to leave in the past year the Online network. It is said to have tensions with Zuckerberg, the stronger in the leadership of the services engagement.
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chat services run better than Facebook <p class="text small" The three services each have more than a billion users. Facebook as an Online network to more than 2.2 billion active members. The growth had recently slowed significantly, while the chat services active and used.
The end-to-end encryption, where only the interlocutors have access to the contents of a conversation, is currently in the Facebook world only to WhatsApp by default. The Facebook Messenger, you can add them to the exchange of confidential information.
When you finish the WhatsApp founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum, it was mentioned, you could have been against plans to weaken the encryption. The end-to-end encryption – the other Chat services like Signal, a Wire, or Apple’s iMessage, by default, use – puffs at the same time, in the case of security agencies such as the US Federal police FBI to resistance, because they have to get worse to the news of Suspects.
Plans Zuckerberg is a kind of “Whatsabook”?
A former Facebook Manager told the “Financial Times”, Zuckerberg wool combine various services of the group to a kind of “Whatsabook”, in order to stimulate growth. While the encryption would improve the protection of data, whether the true purpose of Facebook, presumably, more contact details, to find potential new users, he explained.
A common infrastructure would mean a profound intervention in the current functioning of the affected services. So WhatsApp is designed from the beginning to the recording of less user data and only requires the phone number of the smartphone. In the case of Facebook, the Facebook Messenger and Instagram, in contrast, users create Accounts.
stocks slipped
The planned merger of Chat services on a common platform that could bring the share of Facebook’s new thrust. The title had fallen since the end of July around 30 percent. On Wednesday after US stock exchange conclusion of the world’s largest Online social network unveiled its quarter of.
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source: boerse.ard.de
Zuckerberg wants to merge chat services, 25.01.2019
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