Mark Zuckerberg has ordered the messaging infrastructures of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to be merged in order to allow messaging across all three of the platforms. It'll be complete in 2020.
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Jan Koum has announced that he is leaving Facebook after a disagreement between him and the firm broke out over the matter of encryption. Facebook wants to weaken the encryption in WhatsApp.
Mobile messaging application WhatsApp has hit an astounding 900 million active monthly users. Since Facebook's $22bn acquisition, it became the second Android app to hit 1 billion downloads.
Surpassing yet another major milestone, the WhatsApp CEO has just announced that the platform independent messaging app is now serving an astonishing six hundred million users.
It has emerged that WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton applied for a job at Facebook in 2009, and got rejected. More than five years later and his start-up application has fetched a whopping $19bn.