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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 ...
[211] In September 2023, a beta version of WhatsApp was released for iPad. No official release date has been announced. [212] iPad users searching for WhatsApp are shown numerous third-party clients. Several top results have names and logos resembling WhatsApp itself, and some users do not realize they are using a third-party client.
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 ...
And that same year, he & Jan Koum "took a chance" and co-founded WhatsApp together. Then in 2014 after amassing 450 million global users, they sold WhatsApp to Facebook in a deal that reportedly ...
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 ...
Messaging platform WhatsApp in a February 14 filing said it had about 46.8 million average monthly active users in the 27-country European Union in the six month period to December 2024, above the ...
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 ...
WhatsApp's user base grows to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50. [1] Jul 2013: Sequoia invests another $50 million in Series B round, valuing WhatsApp at $1.5 billion. [9] Jul 16, 2013: WhatsApp changes its profit model with an annual subscription fee of $1 after a free first year. [10] [11] Aug 2013