Happy Birthday WhatsApp

Happy 5th Birthday OWhatsApp The hugely successful messaging app is 5 years old in November 2014. WhatsApp in Numbers Facebook purchase of WhatsApp = $19 billion in cash and stock WhatsApp reached 450 million users faster than any other company 1 to 14 million The ratio of WhatsApp developers to active users 600 million Monthly active users (August 2014) 50 million 000 The number of messages that WhatsApp processes every day $10 billion How much Google reportedly offered to purchase WhatsApp $160 million How much early WhatsApp employees are said to rake in from the Facebook deal The WhatsApp Story Founded by former Yahoo engineers Brian Acton and Jan Koum. Koum, 38, was born in Ukraine and moved to the USA as a teenager. Acton, 42, grew up in Michigan and was employee No. 44 at Yahoo. Acton hired Koum at Yahoo and YAHOO! served as his mentor. Acton was turned down for a job at Facebook in 2009. They charge iPhone users a one-time $.99 fee upon installation. They charge Android users $.99 every year (after the first year). 8. The Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp is the second-largest in recent tech history, second only to Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq in 2001 for $25 billion. Social Koum holds about a 45% stake, making him worth about $6.8 billion. Acton owns a stake estimated at over 20%, making him worth at least $3 billion (*Feb 2014 share prices). Sequoia Capital Ltd. was WhatsApp's lone venture capital investor. HQ is in Mountain View, California, USA. Quotes from WhatsApp No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks! Jan Koum No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. loo Comparing total registered users and active users is like comparing Ferrari 250 GTO with a skateboard. We want to know as little about our users as possible. We don't know your name, your gender... We designed our system to be as anonymous as possible. We're not advertisement-driven so we don't need personal databases. We won't stop until every single person on the planet has an affordable and reliable way to communicate with their friends and loved ones. Brian Acton Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better. We don't want to build a hookup app so you can find someone weird to talk to. It's not what we're about. We're about your intimate relationships. We're the most atypical Silicon Valley company you'll come across. We were founded by thirtysomethings; we focused on business sustainability and revenue rather than getting big fast, we've been incognito almost all the time, we're mobile first, and we're global first. "Engineers make up 84% of our company-so if you like writing code and hate office politics, talk to us." On the WhatsApp Recruitment Page Competitors to WhatsApp Line Brunch Bunch (7) O v A messaging app that lets users send text messages, images, video and audio, as well as make phone calls over the internet or video conference. Available for most Hey guys! What should we have for brunch? LINE How about this? ( platforms. 350 million users globally. HQ Japan. Kik ROGERS 8:10 PM kık- Sends texts, images and voice messages over a smartphone's data connection. Integrates a web browser into the application allowing users to browse content and share it directly with their friends. Now with 100 million users globally, Kik was released in 2010 and quickly hit 1 million users in just 14 days. Chelsea is I've got a spare ticket to the.. 5:13 PM Corey Philips e See you then O 5:08 PM kık- Jon, Jenna, Mike, F... 4:48 PM Ashley Jacobs Are you coming out tonight? 4:37 PM Sam Harris I just had coffee at a cool shop 4:29 PM . ROGERS 8:10 PM BBM Andrew BOM me here Andrew Hey Megant Where were you last night? You missed a great show! BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) was released for both Android and the iPhone in September 2013 making it cross platform for the first time. BlackBerry announced that by December 2013 BBM had 40 million users of its iPhone and Android apps. Andrew 4 PM Megan Acheson OHE Sorry, my yoga class went late. Megan Acheson 4 PM Viber Lilly Ann A cross platform messaging app that started out life as a direct Skype competitor for free voice calling, Viber has expanded into a cross- platform messaging client and was recently bought by the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten for $900 million. Most widely available messaging app.All users can send text, pictures and video messages using Viber, but voice calling and some other features are limited to the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. Today ALOMA I'm so excited! 422 PM + 8 Type to compose REFERENCES 1 businessinsider.com/these-two-ex-yahoos-are-making-millions--but-turning-down-billions-because-they-hate-advertising-2013-6 2 mashable.com/2014/02/19/whatsapp-founders-jan-koum-brian-acton 3 forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive-inside-story-how-jan-koum-built-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new-19-billion-baby 4 theverge.com/2014/2/20/5431566/a-brief-history-of-whatsapps-success-involves-food-stamps-and-ikea 5 informationweek.com/software/social/facebooks-whatsapp-buy-10-staggering-stats-/d/d-id/1113927 5 bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/whatsapp-s-founder-goes-from-food-stamps-to-billionaire.html 7 whatsapp.com 8 theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/20/ six-alternatives-whatsapp-facebook 9 businessinsider.com/whatsapp-brian-acton-jan-koum-quotes-2014-2?op=1 CPfoc Driving Profitability For Our Clients The Home of Scientific Online Marketing! „dpfoc.com www. %24