Mobile messaging service WhatsApp is hiring a business head for the Indian market as a part of its expansion plans for this year, along with a few other markets, its Head of Business Development Neeraj Arora told MediaNama, responding to a question from MediaNama on whether things will change for the company on the business development front, following the $19 billion acquisition by Facebook. "The roadmap was, for this year, to expand the business development team, and to have some local presence. For 5-7 countries which are really important, India being one of them, we actually want to have one person in that country to help us with business development, press, other miscellaneous activities that happen in that country like relationships with carriers, OEM's and everything else". Arora did emphasize that Facebook and WhatsApp are going to operate independently and nothing…
