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WhatsApp introduces its document-sharing feature, initially allowing users to share PDF files with their contacts. ĭiego Dzodan, a Facebook executive, is arrested by Brazilian federal police after Facebook fails to turn over information from his WhatsApp messaging account into a judge's request for a drug trafficking investigation. There is still no clear plan for monetizing WhatsApp. Jan Koum announces that WhatsApp will no longer charge its users a $1 annual subscription fee. It is shut down in Brazil again on May 2016 and in July 2016. WhatsApp is briefly shut down in Brazil after it refuses to place wiretaps on certain WhatsApp accounts. Users would not be able to use WhatsApp’s services at all until the third-party apps are uninstalled. WhatsApp announces its policy on cracking down on 3rd-party clients, including WhatsApp+. WhatsApp launches WhatsApp Web, a web client which can be used through a web browser by syncing with the mobile device's connection.

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Within a week, WhatsApp introduces an update allowing users to disable this feature. WhatsApp introduces Read Receipts, which show when a message is read by a recipient.

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Someone discovers a vulnerability in WhatsApp encryption on the Android application that allows another app to access and read all of a user’s chat conversations within it. Facebook pays $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units granted to WhatsApp's founders. announces its acquisition of WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date. Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging service, launches. WhatsApp changes its profit model with an annual subscription fee of $1 after a free first year. Sequoia invests another $50 million in Series B round, valuing WhatsApp at $1.5 billion. WhatsApp's user base grows to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50.

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The WhatsApp support staff announce that messages were encrypted in the 'latest version' of the WhatsApp software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian), without specifying the cryptographic method. Īn unknown hacker publishes a website that makes it possible to change the status of an arbitrary WhatsApp user, as long as the phone number was known. SnapChat, a competing photo messaging app, is founded. In Series A round, WhatsApp founders agree to take $7 million from Sequoia Capital on top of their $250,000 seed funding, after months of negotiation with Sequoia partner Jim Goetz. It eventually starts to compete with WhatsApp and becomes very popular in China.

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WhatsApp support for Android OS is added. īrian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in California. įor a chronological guide, see Timeline of WhatsApp. By 2016 it had become the primary means of Internet communication in regions including Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, and large parts of Europe and Africa. It became the world's most popular messaging application by 2015, and had more than 2 billion users worldwide by February 2020.

of Mountain View, California, which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for approximately US$19.3 billion.

The client application was created by WhatsApp Inc. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business which can communicate with the standard WhatsApp client. The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to sign up. WhatsApp's client application runs on mobile devices, and can be accessed from computers. It allows users to send text and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is an internationally available freeware, cross-platform centralized instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by American company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook). APKMirror.Īndroid, iOS, KaiOS (There are also Mac OS, Windows and web app clients that work only when connected to the mobile app client.)