The App WhatsApp is an instant messaging application very low cost mobile Smartphone or better known as smart phones to send and receive text messages or voice using the internet. It supports data transmission via cellular operators or a WiFi network. It has the ability to create groups of several people chatting together. Also used to send and receive pictures and videos. It is compatible with Windows Phone, Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS including operating systems, although there are older platforms which also works.
The first version was created in early 2009, his second release in June of the same year, at the time stood at 250,000 users since late January 2014 had 54 billion messages sent daily. In April 2014, exceeded 600 million users transmitting pictures 700 million and 100 million videos daily.
On February 19, 2014 the application the company buy Facebook for an amount of 19 billion dollars (12 billion in shares of Facebook and the rest in cash). In October of that year announced the final purchase by the company of WhatsApp Facebook worth 21.8 billion dollars. In November 2014, the new owners of WhatsApp ensure that through the new update is fully encrypted communication from end to end.
On January 21, 2015 version was launched in Web WhatsApp tests under Windows platforms Phone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and BlackBerry 10, is only accessible from Opera and Google Chrome. You must have installed the newer version 2.11.498 or WhatsApp.
Initially Whatsapp was a pun "What's up?", Which meaning is like saying "what happened?" "There?", "How are you doing?".
It was founded in 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton; Koum of Ukrainian origin who resided in the US since the early 90s, had been employed by the Yahoo company in charge of the management team of the great platform operations; and Acton was the chief engineer.
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