WhatsApp Messenger, or without a doubt WhatsApp, is an American freeware, cross-platform centralized messaging and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned via Facebook, Inc.[13] It permits customers to ship text messages and voice messages,[14] make voice and video calls, and proportion pictures, files, user places, and different content material.[15][16] WhatsApp's patron utility runs on cellular devices however is likewise available from computing device computer systems, so long as the consumer's cellular tool remains connected to the Internet even as they use the computing device app.[17] The carrier calls for a cell cellular telephone quantity to sign on.[18] In January 2018, WhatsApp launched a standalone commercial enterprise app targeted at small commercial enterprise proprietors, known as WhatsApp Business, to permit companies to communicate with clients who use the usual WhatsApp patron.[19][20]
WhatsApp
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Original creator(s)
Brian Acton, Jan Koum
Developer(s)
WhatsApp LLC (Facebook, Inc.)
Initial release
January 2009; 12 years ago
Stable release(s) [±]
iOS 2.21.90 / May 10, 2021; 28 days in the past[1]
Android 2.21.9.13 / May 12, 2021; 26 days in the past[2]
Preview launch(s) [±]
Android (Beta) 2.21.10.12 / May 14, 2021; 24 days ago[3]
Written in
Erlang[4]
Operating gadget
Android, iOS, KaiOS (There are also Mac OS, Windows and internet app clients that work simplest when linked to the cellular app client.)
Size
168 MB (iOS)[5]
32.Nine MB (Android)[6]
Available in
forty (iOS) and 60 (Android)[7] languages
Type
Instant messaging, VoIP
License
Proprietary software program with EULA ("European Region", others)
Website
WhatsApp.Com
WhatsApp LLC
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Type
Subsidiary
Founded
February 24, 2009; 12 years in the past[8]
Founders
Jan Koum
Brian Acton
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Key people
Will Cathcart (Head of WhatsApp)[9][10]
Number of personnel
50
Parent
Facebook, Inc.
Website
WhatsApp.Com
Footnotes / references
[11][12]
The consumer utility became created through WhatsApp Inc. Of Mountain View, California, which changed into obtained through Facebook in February 2014 for approximately US$19.Three billion.[21][22] It have become the arena's most popular messaging software by 2015,[23][24] and has over 2 billion users worldwide as of February 2020.[25] It has come to be the primary approach of internet verbal exchange in multiple places, consisting of Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, and huge components of Europe and Africa.[23]
