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WhatsApp was founded in February 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former employees of Yahoo! A month earlier, after Koum purchased an iPhone, he and Acton decided to create an app for the App Store. The idea started off as an app that would display statuses in a phone's Contacts menu, showing if a person was at work or on a call. [27]
WhatsApp and Open Whisper Systems announce that they finish adding end-to-end encryption to "every form of communication" on WhatsApp, and that users could now verify each other's keys. [29] [30] [31] 2016: May 10: Product: WhatsApp is introduced for both Windows and Mac operating systems. [32] 2016: November: Product: Video calls between two ...
Within a week, WhatsApp introduces an update allowing users to disable this feature. [17] Jan 21, 2015: WhatsApp launches WhatsApp Web, a web client which can be used through a web browser by syncing with the mobile device's connection. [18] Jan 21, 2015: WhatsApp announces its policy on cracking down on 3rd-party clients, including WhatsApp+. [19]
In January 2006, Verizon Communications purchased MCI and the arena's name was changed accordingly to Verizon Center. [8] VIDA Fitness opened its first location in the arena that same year. [ 45 ] The following year, in 2007, the "first true indoor high-definition LED scoreboard " was installed in the arena.
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
In 2009, Jan Koum and Acton co-founded WhatsApp, [4] a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for US$19 billion. Acton left WhatsApp in September 2017 to start the Signal Foundation. [5] According to Forbes (2020), Acton is the 836th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $2.5 billion. [4]
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Chinese Community Church was founded in 1935, initially at L Street, but relocated in 2006 to its current I Street location. [33] The Sixth & I Historic Synagogue has been restored and is the scene of cultural events. The Washington DC Chinatown Community Cultural Center offers numerous activities, classes and services. [34]