WhatsApp

WhatsApp Sending 20 Billion Messages Daily; User Base Larger Than Twitter

We all know popular cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp is big, right? Well think again because the company is larger than you could ever imagine. Speaking onstage at D: Dive Into Mobile, AllThingsD reports WhatApp CEO Jan Koum revealed his company has exceeded the user base of Twitter, which has roughly 200 million monthly active users....

WhatsApp Reportedly in Talks with Google for $1B Acquisition? [Update]

More rumours point to WhatsApp once again being in talks to be acquired, this time according to a report from Digital Trends (via AppleInsider). The site notes the popular cross-platform messaging app is in negotiations with Google on determining prices for an acquisition: Messaging app WhatsApp is in the negotiating phase over prices with Google in what...

WhatsApp Declined Purchase Offers from Facebook, Google, Tencent Holdings

In an article detailing the competitive third party messaging market, the Wall Street Journal reveals popular cross-platform app WhatsApp had declined purchase offers from Facebook, Google and Tencent Holdings (a Chinese investment holding company, operator of Tencent QQ instant messenger): Facebook acquired mobile messaging startup Beluga in 2011 and recently expressed interest in buying WhatsApp...

WhatsApp Planning To Bring Annual Subscription To Its iOS App This Year

CEO of popular cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp has said that the company is planning to introduce a yearly subscription service to its iOS app later this year, where new users would pay annually to keep using the app, TechCrunch is reporting. He added that a one-off download fee will be removed from the iOS version, bringing...

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Report Says WhatsApp Violated Privacy Laws

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority this morning released the results of their collaborative investigation into popular third party messaging app, WhatsApp. "Our Office is very proud to mark an important world-first along with our Dutch counterparts, especially in light of today's increasingly online, mobile and borderless...

WhatsApp Processed a Record 18 Billion Messages on New Year’s Eve

Cross platform messaging giant WhatsApp has announced on Twitter it reached a new milestone for total messages processed in one day: 18 billion. Those messages were sent on New Year's Eve and totalled 7 billion messages inbound and 11 billion messages outbound. The discrepancy between inbound and outbound messages is due to the nature of...

WhatsApp Messenger Can Be Downloaded For Free Right Now

If you've been waiting for WhatsApp Messenger to go on sale, it's currently a free download in the App Store. If you haven't used WhatsApp, it's a popular and powerful cross platform messaging app that will allow you to communicate with friends who also have the app on Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbian devices....