WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum is breaking ties with his company's parent, Facebook, amid a privacy scandal that has dogged the social network for weeks. In attendance will be more than 5,000 app software developers, some of whom may be WhatsApp users. In a reply to Koum's Facebook post, Zuckerberg told him he would miss working together. Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, though without ever devising a clear strategy for how that service would make money. ———This story has been corrected to note that Koum reportedly clashed with Facebook management, not specifically with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Source: ABC News April 30, 2018 22:19 UTC