1. Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion
After buying WhatsApp, Facebook
issued a press release according to which the deal between these two networking
giants was closed on $19 billion.The break according to Forbes is like this –
$12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash, and $3 billion in restricted stocks
which will be released to WhatsApp employees after 4 years.According to this
Facebook estimated the value of each WhatsApp user to be of around $42.
2. WhatsApp has serious Security Issues According
to Mcafee WhatsApp has serious Security issues. Although there are many
Misconceptions about hacking WhatsApp but it is one of the most insecure IM
services and can be hacked even by a layman using some WhatsApp hacking tricks
and techniques and anyone’s message history can be decrypted easily.
3. WhatsApp has the most number of active users per engineer
WhatsApp has the most number of active users per
engineer in the industry or the least number of engineers working in comparison
to the number of people using this service, there were 30 billion messages
being sent per day as of January 2016.
4. It was founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum
WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by two former employees of Yahoo! – Brian Acton and Jan Koum.Both of them sat for job interviews in Facebook and Twitter and were rejected, after which Jan tweeted – “Facebook turned me down. It was great opportunity to work with some fantastic people, looking forward to life’s next adventure.”
5. WhatsApp has spent Zero Cash on marketing Yeas,
you read it right, Whatsapp has not spent a single penny on marketing, PR and
user acquisition.Also, the Co-Founder of the messaging app – Jan Koum keeps a note on his desk written
by Brianwhich says “No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!” To keep them solely focused
on building a pure messaging experience.
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