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WhatsApp is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging service for smartphones. In addition to text messaging, users can also send each other photos, videos, and voice messages. Client software is available for Google Android, BlackBerry, Apple iOS, select Nokia Series 40, Symbian, select Nokia Asha platforms and Microsoft Windows Phone.WhatsApp's client application runs on mobile devices, and can be accessed from a computer.
History
WhatsApp was founded by two ex-Yahoo employees, Jane Kom and her colleague Brian Acton. After quitting Yahoo in September 2014, both of them visited South America and spent free time here. Meanwhile, he sent a job application in Facebook which was not accepted. Meanwhile, in 2009, Jane Kom bought an iPhone for herself and was impressed with the App Store. It was here that he came up with the idea that an app could be created to share statuses using only the internet, which would revolutionize mobile phones. On the advice of a friend, he contacted a Russian mobile developer, Igo Solominkov, and immediately suggested the app name WhatsApp, which is very close to the English word Whats Up. Here, Jane Kom founded WhatsApp Inc. on her birthday in the US state of California.
Selling to Facebook
On February 19, 2014, Facebook America announced that it was acquiring WhatsApp for $19 billion.[1]
The most popular social networking website Facebook has bought the popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars. WhatsApp is a popular application among today's youth and has 45 million users. In a statement, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg hailed WhatsApp's services as 'incredibly valuable'. This is Facebook's biggest purchase ever. Before that, Facebook's biggest deal was the purchase of Instagram in 2012 for which it paid a billion dollars. WhatsApp allows the user to send messages using the Internet while saving the cost of short messages on mobile
. The company claims that it has one million new users registering every day. A free version of this application is available for general use while it charges users a dollar a year for the business version. According to the agreement between Facebook and WhatsApp, Facebook will pay $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in the form of its own shares, while $3 billion in the form of shares will later be given to the founders and employees of WhatsApp. . WhatsApp founder Jain Kom will also become a member of Facebook's board of directors. Talking about the deal, he has said that he intends to run the company in an 'independent' manner. In a statement, he said, 'We are very excited and honored to partner with Mark and Facebook.' He believes WhatsApp may have a billion users, but he has expressed no intention of offering the application's interface for advertising, saying he believes there is no way to make money in such a messaging system. So advertising is not the best way. When the deal closes, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and his partner Brian Acton will join the list of Silicon Valley billionaires.
International popularity
WhatsApp is currently the most popular mobile internet messaging service in the world. In February 2016, WhatsApp announced that its number of monthly active users had crossed one billion, which means that every seventh person in the world is currently a WhatsApp user.
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