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WhatsApp's user base swells to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50. [2] 2013: July: Funding: Sequoia invests another $50 million in Series B round, valuing WhatsApp at $1.5 billion. [9] 2013: July 16: Product: WhatsApp goes free, with an annual subscription fee of $1 after the first year. [10] [11] 2013: August: Competition
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]
Google's other music streaming service Play Music was merged with YouTube Music in May 2020, as the latter is a more recognized brand. [170] Support for the dedicated YouTube application on the Sony PlayStation Vita game console was deprecated in January 2015, for the Nintendo Wii and Wii Mini in June 2017, and for the Nintendo 3DS in August 2019.
WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an American instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [13] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, [14] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.
Universal Music first licensed songs to Facebook in 2017 in a landmark pact that allowed users to share videos containing music on the social media platform. Since then, music has become only more ...
Bulletin board systems (BBS) and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) were popular during this time period, and IRC is still widely used today. [1] [2] The WELL, established in 1985, is one of the oldest still-operating online communities. Its name is an acronym for "The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link", coined by Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth ...
Jan Borysovych Koum [a] (born February 24, 1976 [1]) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.
Today, AOL remembers a voice that defined the early internet experience: Elwood Edwards, the man behind the classic “You’ve Got Mail” greeting, died on November 5, 2024, at the age of 74.