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It's not really "pop" technology. Surprisingly, it's not used much in the United States, but in India it's basically a replacement for text messaging. Everyone from a 13 year old child to my grand mom uses it to keep in touch with friends and family members across the globe. IMHO, they were able to get to such widespread everyday usage because they such awesome and reliable technology. Much better than what Google ha…
In Romania many acquaintances used it, but most of them have switched to Facebook's messenger. As I was saying in another comment, if I open my WhatsApp right now, most of the people listed as being on WhatsApp have probably uninstalled it, so there's a very real possibility that messages won't ever reach their target, whereas the new Facebook Messenger for Android is catching on like fire. In my opinion, this is pro…
Re: Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs
#831When they say "450 million monthly active users worldwide and over 320 million daily active users", it's probably safe to assume that they have discarded inactive users. That's also depending on what their definition of inactive means (e.g. have not used whatsapp in 3 months?)