20The absolute majority of messengers are free of charge. While many people wonder “how do they make money?” messengers are locked in investment battles backstage. WhatsApp’s $19 billion acquisition has set the record straight. Messengers are worth a lot. An entire fortune. WhatsApp Six hundred million active users — every 12th person on the planet…
19Andrew Watts A 19-year-old US student at the University of Texas, who published a story on his blog about his attitude towards social media and messengers. The most interesting excerpts from the text are given below.
19In case of his reelection, UK Prime Minister David Cameron promises to consider the issue of banning encrypted end-to-end messengers like WhatsApp, iMessage, Snapchat, Russian Telegram, etc, if these services refuse to make customer data accessible for British special services. The law is to be implemented in 2016. Giving his arguments, Cameron mentioned the recent acts…
15In mid-2013 WhatsApp pleased its supporters with some pleasant numbers – 200 million people are happily using or logging on to the service at least once a month. In April of the same year another piece of information swept the media – a half a billion active WhatsApp users. At the time analysts had doubts regarding the…