Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, January 17th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today. No ads in WhatsApp for now. We have all the details on the peacock streaming service finally.

The other streaming wars are taking their toll on Twitch.

Jack Dorsey asks Elon Musk how to fix Twitter

and of course the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Sources are telling the Wall Street Journal that Facebook has put off its efforts to build

ads into WhatsApp.

Apparently, Facebook is now going to focus instead on B to C communications inside

what's app, but they still maybe will want to sell ads in what's app's status

at some point.

Quote, what's app in recent months disbanded a team that had been established to find the best ways

to integrate ads into the service according to people familiar with the matter.

The team's work was then deleted from WhatsApp's code, the people said.

Facebook's push to sell ads in WhatsApp was a big factor in the decisions by

Jan Combe and Brian Acton, who created the messaging service, to resign from the company leaving on the

table a combined $1.3 billion in deferred compensation the Wall Street

Journal previously reported end quote. The piece does go on to note that ads could still come to the status section in the near future.

But what does it mean to instead focus on business to consumer communications exactly

quoting again in the US and many European countries what's app is used largely

for interpersonal communication but many users in developing nations who are the majority of

Wetsap users have also adapted the platform to commerce and customer service and the company

...