India sure loves WhatsApp: 14 billion messages sent on New Year's Eve

Whether you’re in a fish market in India, or in a classroom, or on a bus, one thing that truly captures the zeitgeist of the country is the constant buzzing “ping! ping! ping!” WhatsApp notifications you hear everywhere. On the last day of 2016, Indians outdid themselves on those notifications. SEE ALSO: Older smartphones get …

WhatsApp founder touts app's newest numbers: 700M monthly active users, 30B daily messages

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 …