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    WhatsApp is a freeware messaging and voice calling app owned by Facebook. It allows users to send texts, images, documents and make voice or video calls between mobile devices or computers connected to the internet. The app was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum and launched initially for iPhone, later expanding to other platforms. By 2015 it became the most popular messaging app worldwide with over 2 billion users as of 2020, being the primary communication method in many countries and regions.

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    Whatsapp

    WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is an


    American freeware, cross-platform messaging and Voice over
    IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook, Inc.[45] It allows users to
    send text messages and voice messages,[46] make voice and video
    calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media.
    [47][48]
     WhatsApp's client application runs on mobile devices but is also
    accessible from desktop computers, as long as the user's mobile
    device remains connected to the Internet while they use the desktop
    app.[49] The service requires users to provide a
    standard cellular mobile number for registering with the service.[50] In
    January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app targeted
    at small business owners, called WhatsApp Business, to allow
    companies to communicate with customers who use the standard
    WhatsApp client.[51][52]
    The client application was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain
    View, California, which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014
    for approximately US$19.3 billion.[53][54] It became the world's most
    popular messaging application by 2015,[55][56] and has over 2 billion
    users worldwide as of February 2020.[57] It has become the primary
    means of electronic communication in multiple countries and
    locations, including Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, and large
    parts of Europe and Africa.[55]

    2009–2014[edit]
    WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum,
    former employees of Yahoo!. After leaving Yahoo! in September
    2007, they took some time off in South America.[12] At one point, they
    applied for jobs at Facebook but were rejected.[12]
    In January 2009, after purchasing an iPhone and realizing the
    potential of the app industry on the App Store, Koum and Acton
    began visiting Koum's friend Alex Fishman in West San Jose to
    discuss a new type of messaging app that would "show statuses next
    to individual names of the people".[citation needed] They realized that to
    take the idea further, they would need an iPhone developer. Fishman
    visited RentACoder.com, found Russian developer Igor
    Solomennikov, and introduced him to Koum.
    Koum named the app WhatsApp to sound like "what's up". On
    February 24, 2009, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California.
    However, when early versions of WhatsApp kept crashing, Koum
    considered giving up and looking for a new job. Acton encouraged
    him to wait for a "few more months".[58]
    In June 2009, Apple launched push notifications, allowing users to be
    pinged when they were not using an app. Koum changed WhatsApp
    so that when a user's status is changed, everyone in the user's network
    would be notified.[12] WhatsApp 2.0 was released with a messaging
    component and the number of active users suddenly increased to
    250,000. Although Acton was working on another startup idea, he
    decided to join the company.[12] In October 2009, Acton persuaded
    five former friends at Yahoo! to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and
    Acton became a co-founder and was given a stake. He officially
    joined WhatsApp on November 1.[12] After months at beta stage, the
    application launched in November 2009, exclusively on the App Store
    for the iPhone. Koum then hired a friend in Los Angeles, Chris
    Peiffer, to develop a BlackBerry version, which arrived two months
    later.[12]
    To cover the primary cost of sending verification texts to users,
    WhatsApp was changed from a free service to a paid one. In
    December 2009, the ability to send photos was added to the iPhone
    version. By early 2011, WhatsApp was one of the top 20 apps at
    Apple's U.S. App Store.[12]
    In April 2011, Sequoia Capital invested about $8 million for more
    than 15% of the company, after months of negotiation with Sequoia
    partner Jim Goetz.[59][60][61]
    By February 2013, WhatsApp had about 200 million active users and
    50 staff members. Sequoia invested another $50 million, and
    WhatsApp was valued at $1.5 billion.[12]
    In a December 2013 blog post, WhatsApp claimed that 400 million
    active users used the service each month.[62]

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