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Into The stroke of the free messaging: WhatsApp reaches 250 million users the giants of the web expansion of WhatsApp is an incentive for technological innovation. Recently Facebook has enabled members of Instagram to record video of 15 seconds. And Twitter was launched Vine.
The race to the microfilmed a few seconds also responds to software applications like WhatsApp: platform messaging and calls on the internet has recently recorded a leap of 27 billion messages a day . Every now its 250 million members have traded 1.12 billion communications. But unlike public spaces like Twitter chats are visible only to users who participate in the conversations.

A rapid rise
of WhatsApp That is the story of a startup game thanks to the initiative of two former employees of Yahoo!, Brian Acton and Jan Koum. They decide to test their ideas. And rely on the three effe to collect the first funds: “family, friends, fools” (family, friends and fools). Soon, WhatsApp extend from iPhone to BlackBerry. Following arri ving on Android and Windows Phone. After about two years after its foundation in 2011 the startup receives an investment from Sequoia, a prestigious venture capital firm.

Increase surfers from mobile devices
User access on the internet expands the boundaries to smartphones, tablets and laptops. The forecast StartCounter reworked in the report by Mary Meeker suggests that next year a fifth of the data traffic will be through mobile platforms. In addition, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimates that online surfers will total 400 million more: they were 2.3 billion in 2011 and will become 2.7 billion by the end of the year.

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