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Showing posts with label Whats App Acquisition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Whats App Acquisition. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Facebook's WhatsApp adding voice calls after Facebook Acquisition

As reported by multiple news platforms, they announced that WhatsApp now has 330+ million daily users and 465+ million monthly users.



At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Jan Koum "WhatsApp CEO" said the voice service will be free and begin rolling out to users within the next couple of months.

Media reports put WhatsApp's revenue at about $20 million in 2013.

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg defended the price paid for a messaging service with negligible revenue. 

WhatsApp Released New Version 2.11.186 with Privacy Settings and Hindi Support

WhatsApp has released a new update version 2.11.186 with interesting features and brings Privacy Settings. This latest version enables Hindi for the Android smartphone operate on android 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher version and users can enable Hindi from keyboard settings or download the Google keyboard from the Google Play Store.



You can access Privacy Settings option under the settings > account menu in WhatsApp, these features allows the user to change the personal information.

Another feature you can see the large thumbnails for video and save or share the Photo or Group icons

Thursday, February 20, 2014

WhatsApp: Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion deal in cash and stock.


Facebook has announced to plans acquire WhatsApp for the equivalent of $19 billion in cash and stock. According to the source, Facebook has agreed to pay $12 billion in stock and $4 billion in cash for this acquisition. Additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to WhatsApp's founders and employees as part of the deal agreed by Facebook, which bring this deal price to $19 billion
WhatsApp already has over 450+ million active users every month and this is the so far Facebook largest acquisition in early 2013-2014.

WhatsApp
WhatsApp, founded in 2009 by former Yahoo engineers Jan Koum and Brian Acton and day by day is the most popular of a set of mobile messaging apps. The app served as an alternative option to SMS by letting users send messages for free across smartphone platforms. It currently has more than 450+ million people who use the app every day.