Wpp History

WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by Jan Koum (who had come from the Ukraine to the United States in the early nineties, without practically speaking English), and who had previously been the director of the Yahoo! platform operations team. and the former head of Brian Acton's engineering team. Originally, WhatsApp was an "intelligent" agenda utility where you could see what each person was doing, in order to know if they were available to speak or if it was better to contact them at another time, through SMS, etc., in a way to program specific states at certain times, unlike other communication applications such as MSN or Aol, it directly uses the information in the user's contact book, avoiding the creation of a user name and password manually. It was originally an application for BlackBerry devices and later, for iPhone. The states could be spread to all contacts or only specific ones, simulating a chat or conversation. On the other hand, WhatsApp Inc. has received investments worth 10 million dollars from the company Sequoia Capital. WhatsApp was removed from the AppStore on January 14, 2012 for four days, according to some, due to security flaws. This has been denied by Brian Acton. In March 2013, WhatsApp announced that the Android version, free since its inception, would be paid for the first use; After 365 days of use, it is mandatory to pay again to extend the use of the program for another year. This has led to a progressive decline of WhatsApp in favor of other competitors, in countries where the Android platform is dominant since the concept of paying for Internet services and applications is non-existent. On February 19, 2014, Mark Zuckerberg -the creator of Facebook- announced in his personal profile the purchase of the WhatsApp mobile application for a total amount of 19,000 million dollars and clarified that his decision sought to expand the number of users on Facebook . On February 22, 2014, it had some failures worldwide; Those responsible for WhatsApp recognized the fall of the service in a Twitter account dedicated to reporting possible failures in the application, @wa_status. «Sorry, we are experiencing problems with the servers. We hope to be recovered and active soon ». One hour after registering the problem, the Telegram application also reported an overload in its system, after having received "100 new service records per second". On April 2, there was another of these failures. On May 25, at 7:00 pm, there was a brief failure that left the users without service for more than an hour. In March 2015, rumors began to circulate about a possible update in the application that would allow voice calls to be made through VoIP: this update was distributed little by little among the users; Assuming that to start measuring how much your servers could support. Finally, this function was started by means of the application, initially for Android systems, later for other operating systems. To activate it, they should only receive a call from a user who already had active service. However, several users would have confirmed having received the update without receiving any call, this suggests that the company probably would have been releasing the new function little by little. Like the messaging service, to make calls you must have Internet service, either by mobile data or through a Wi-Fi connection. That same year WhatsApp Web was launched, which allows to use WhatsApp on a computer, synchronizing the phone with it using a QR code. It can be accessed by following the instructions at web.whatsapp.com. In 2016, end-to-end encryption was enabled, which prevents supposedly nobody (not even the same company) from having access to the contents that are sent, only the sender and receiver, however a failure was discovered in the security of this, failure that Facebook knew.