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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: December: Product: WhatsApp for the iPhone is updated to send photos. [2] 2010: August: Product: WhatsApp support for Android OS is ...
WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an American instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [14] It allows users to send text , voice messages and video messages, [ 15 ] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.
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]
WhatsApp is introducing free cloud-based API services in a push to get more businesses using the app, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company's messaging event on Thursday.
Decade Description 1970s–1980s The PLATO system (developed at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation) offers early forms of social media with Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowd-sourced online newspaper, and blog; and ...
(Reuters) -India's competition watchdog directed WhatsApp to refrain from sharing user data for advertising purposes with other applications owned by Meta for a period of five years and fined the ...
One 4-year-old girl made the most of her school's Christmas performance this holiday season. In a now-viral video, little Stori stole the show when she took the microphone from her principal and ...
In May 2012 security researchers noticed that new updates of WhatsApp sent messages with encryption, [40] [41] [42] but described the cryptographic method used as "broken." [43] [44] In August of the same year, the WhatsApp support staff stated that messages sent in the "latest version" of the WhatsApp software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian) were encrypted ...