2. WhatsApp
Founder-- Americans Brian Acton and Jan koum (also the
CEO) , Both former employees of Yahoo!
Headquarters – Mountain View, California
Initial Release – 2009
Employees – 55 People
Users – 450 Million People. More than 1 Million People
Sign up For WhatsApp Every Day and it is on its way to
connecting one Billion People.
Type Of Site – Instant Messaging
Website – www.whatsapp.com
3. Creating Wealth for The Nation
Its free only for 1 year, just to make people get “used
to it’’ and “become addicted” so that once the trial
expires, people pay $0.99.
Ways to create wealth--
Subscribers
Selling data
Royalties
affiliation
4. Number of monthly active WhatsApp users worldwide
from April 2013 to January 2017 (in millions)
5. Facebook & whatsapp deal
Date =19 february ,2014.
Acquirer company = facebook Inc.
Acquiree company =WhatsApp Inc.
Acquisition Amount = $ 19 billion.
It includes
$4 billion in cash ,
$ 12 billion worth of Facebook share
$3 billion in restricted stock units
Jan koum to join board of directors of Facebook.