![]() Now WhatsApp has over 700 million active users sending over 30 billion messages per day. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the acquisition of WhatsApp was connected to his vision for, an initiative to develop basic Internet services for developing countries around the world. One year later, Facebook announced that they acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion - which is the largest purchase of a company backed by venture capitalists. In February 2013, WhatsApp hit 200 million active users. The two of them left Yahoo! in 2007 and applied for jobs at Facebook, but failed during the interview process. WhatsApp was created by Brian Acton and Jan Koum in 2009. "Third-parties that have built unauthorized functionality on top of WhatsApp create issues for people including lost messages.” "Our goal is always to keep WhatsApp fast and secure for the people who use it - it's the most important thing we do," said a WhatsApp spokesman in an interview with BBC. WhatsApp+ was downloaded over 35 million times since launching in 2012. It also allowed users to block people from seeing when you read their messages and offered the ability to increase the size limit of audio and video files. WhatsApp+ allowed users to change the colors and background images in chat conversations. WhatsApp also temporarily banned users that downloaded and actively used the WhatsApp+ app. Earlier this week, a third party app built off of WhatsApp called WhatsApp+ shut down after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the messaging service.
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