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WhatsApp is an instant messaging app for smartphones that operates under a subscription business model.

WhatsApp Inc., was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees of Yahoo!.

They had applied for a job at Facebook but failed .

Koum almost immediately chose the name “WhatsApp” because it sounded like “what’s up,” .

At a particular point. Koum felt like giving up .

The application eventually launched in November 2009 exclusively on the App Store for the iPhone .

February 2013, WhatsApp’s user base had swelled to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50.

January 2015, WhatsApp reached a new milestone of 700 million monthly active users with over 30 billion messages being sent every day .

On February 19, 2014, Facebook announced it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date.

Competing with a number of Asian-based messaging services (like WeChat (468 million active users), Viber (209 million active users