There’s a lot of zeros in this story.
Jan Koum, the CEO and cofounder of WhatsApp, has rung in the new year with a Facebook post touting the messaging apps’ user numbers. WhatsApp now has 700 million monthly active users, up from 600 million at the end of August
Those users combine to send more than 30 billion daily messages. That’s more than four messages for every person on earth.
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Post by Jan Koum.
Facebook acquired the messaging app in February for a then shocking $16 billion (plus another $3 billion on stock incentives). Since then, the app has steadily added users, leading some to predict that it would top 1 billion faster than Facebook Read more…More about Facebook, Whatsapp, Business, and Messaging Apps