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WhatsApp adds the ability to react to messages with six preset emoji (thumbs up, heart, joined hands, tears of laughter, mouth open in surprise, crying face). Share file limit is increased from 100MB to 2GB, and the default maximum size of group chats is increased from 256 to 512.
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WhatsApp introduces a feature named Read Receipts, which alerts senders when their messages are read by recipients. Within a week, WhatsApp introduces an update allowing users to disable this feature so that message recipients do not send acknowledgements.
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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.
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Diego 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.
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WhatsApp announces Channels, a feature that allows one-to-many communication for updates, and no defined limit for number of followers. Channels are not end-to-end encrypted, unlike messages in groups or chats.
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announces its acquisition of WhatsApp for US$ 19 billion, its largest acquisition to date. Facebook pays $ 4 billion in cash, $ 12 billion in Facebook shares, and an additional $ 3 billion in
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WhatsApp announces its policy on cracking down on 3rd-party clients, including WhatsApp+. Users would not be able to use WhatsApp's services at all until the third-party apps are uninstalled.
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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.
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WhatsApp is briefly shut down in Brazil after it refuses to place wiretaps on certain WhatsApp accounts. It is shut down in Brazil again in May 2016 and in July 2016.
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An 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.
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Jan Koum announces that WhatsApp will no longer charge its users a $ 1 annual subscription fee. There is still no clear plan for monetizing WhatsApp.
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WhatsApp starts external testing of an enterprise platform which enables companies to provide customer service to users at scale. Airline
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WhatsApp launches WhatsApp Web, a web client which can be used through a web browser by syncing with the mobile device's connection.
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WhatsApp introduces its document-sharing feature, initially allowing users to share PDF files with their contacts.
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Group calls can be up to 8 accounts and 'highly forwarded' messages can be forwarded only to a single person
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WhatsApp announces that users will be able to send photos and videos that will disappear after one view.
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persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $ 250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status.
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on top of their $ 250,000 seed funding, after months of negotiation with Sequoia partner Jim Goetz.
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Group voice and video calls for up to four accounts and labelling for forwarded messages are added
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to "every form of communication" on WhatsApp, and that users could now verify each other's
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WhatsApp announces users will be able to edit messages up to 15 minutes after being sent.
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WhatsApp relaunches its app for Apple computers, adding audio and video group calling.
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WhatsApp adds the ability for users to share photos and videos in high-definition.
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WhatsApp's user base swells to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50.
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WhatsApp goes free, with an annual subscription fee of $ 1 after the first year.
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WhatsApp Is Now Rolling Out Video Calling For iPhone, Android And Windows Phone
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Albergotti, Reed; MacMillan, Douglas; Rusli, Evelyn M. (19 February 2014).
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WhatsApp finally adds voice calls for all Android users, iOS coming soon
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Now video chat with more than 4 people on WhatsApp, here is how
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WhatsApp adds the ability to react to messages with any emoji.
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Limit on the forwarding of a message is lowered to five times
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KLM first airline with verified WhatsApp business account
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round, WhatsApp founders agree to take $ 8 million from
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Index

WhatsApp
proprietary
cross-platform
encrypted
instant messaging
smartphones
Jan Koum
WhatsApp
App Store for the iPhone
Brian Acton
Android OS
WeChat
Series A
Sequoia Capital
Series B
Telegram
Facebook, Inc.
restricted stock
Voice calls
Open Whisper Systems
end-to-end encryption
keys
Windows
Mac
Video calls
KLM
"Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People"
Wired
Condé Nast

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