![]() ĭiego Dzodan, a Facebook executive, is arrested by Brazilian federal police after Facebook fails to turn over information from his WhatsApp messaging account into a judge's request for a drug trafficking investigation. There is still no clear plan for monetizing WhatsApp. Jan Koum announces that WhatsApp will no longer charge its users a $1 annual subscription fee. It is shut down in Brazil again in May 2016 and in July 2016. WhatsApp is briefly shut down in Brazil after it refuses to place wiretaps on certain WhatsApp accounts. Voice calls between two accounts are added. Users would not be able to use WhatsApp's services at all until the third-party apps are uninstalled. WhatsApp announces its policy on cracking down on 3rd-party clients, including WhatsApp+. WhatsApp launches WhatsApp Web, a web client which can be used through a web browser by syncing with the mobile device's connection. Within a week, WhatsApp introduces an update allowing users to disable this feature so that message recipients do not send acknowledgements. WhatsApp introduces a feature named Read Receipts, which alerts senders when their messages are read by recipients. Someone discovers a vulnerability in WhatsApp encryption on the Android application that allows another app to access and read all of a user's chat conversations within it. Facebook pays $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units granted to WhatsApp's founders. announces its acquisition of WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date. Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging service, launches. WhatsApp goes free, with an annual subscription fee of $1 after the first year. Sequoia invests another $50 million in Series B round, valuing WhatsApp at $1.5 billion. WhatsApp's user base swells to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50. The WhatsApp support staff announce that messages were encrypted in the "latest version" of the WhatsApp software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian), without specifying the cryptographic method. Īn unknown hacker publishes a website that makes it possible to change the status of an arbitrary WhatsApp user, as long as the phone number was known. In Series A round, WhatsApp founders agree to take $8 million from Sequoia Capital on top of their $250,000 seed funding, after months of negotiation with Sequoia partner Jim Goetz. It eventually becomes very popular in China. WhatsApp support for Android OS is added. WhatsApp for the iPhone is updated to send photos. īrian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. Table info: Year, Month and date, Event type, Details.
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