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Month and date Event type Details 2009: February 24: Company: Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in USA. [2] 2009: August: Product: WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [3] 2009: October: Funding: Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. [2] 2009 ...
WhatsApp Timeline; Feb 24, 2009: Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in California. [1] Aug 2009: WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [2] Oct 2009: Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. [1] Aug 2010: WhatsApp support for Android (operating system) is ...
In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business which can communicate with the standard WhatsApp client. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The service was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain View, California , which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for approximately US$ 19.3 billion.
WhatsApp first introduced a similar limit in 2018, when it restricted users from forwarding a message to more than five people or groups at once. While announcing the new restriction earlier this ...
Australia becomes the first country to have an age ban for under 16 on social media. [134] 2025 Milestone TikTok is banned on United States only for 12 hours, making its first app in the United States to be banned, leading large amount of users migrating to RedNote. On January 18, 2025, the day before the deadline of the law, TikTok suspended ...
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.
Our names and nationalities, faces and faith brand us with the stain of collective guilt for crimes that we did not commit, writes Khaled A. Beydoun on the Arab and Muslim communities in the US.
Beginning with its first introduction in 2005, BlackBerry Messenger became the first popular example of mobile-based IM, combining features of traditional IM and mobile SMS. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Instant messaging remains very popular today; IM apps are the most widely used smartphone apps: in 2018 for instance there were 980 million monthly active users ...