WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has revealed on his Facebook page that the instant messaging platform has achieved the mark of 800 million active users. It was only a few months back when the company announced the 700 million bench mark. It seems the Facebook owned company is adding 100 million active subscribers in every four months.
The company was acquired by Facebook last year in February for a record deal of $19 billion which is one of the biggest deal in tech history. Since then the company has seen a steady growth in the number of subscribers. WhatsApp expects to reach the billion mark by the end of this year and after the introduction of voice calling the platform is expected to expand even further.
The IM platform has recently started rolling out the new VoIP feature which allows the user to make calls using internet connection. Applications like Viber and Skype were the major players in this segment before WhatsApp. The application provides the calling feature in Android and iOS but the quality of calls is still far below the industry standard and is expected to improve after a few major updates.
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