WhatsApp has started rolling out a new video-calling feature to users in India, estimated at 150 million. The mobile messaging app, which Facebook bought for $19.3 billion in 2014, has over a billion users across the world. The video feature brings WhatsApp, developed by former Yahoo engineers, into direct competition with Skype, a Scandinavian messaging company owned by Microsoft since 2011. “We’re introducing this feature because we know that sometimes voice and text just aren’t enough. There’s no substitute for watching your grandchild take her first steps, or seeing your daughter’s face while she’s studying abroad,” said WhatsApp in a…
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