Facebook Acquires Instagram and Whatapps - Now Largest Publisher
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similar features
The Whatsapp messaging app also offers very similar features:
Most importantly, given that Facebook's user attrition is driven primarily by privacy-related concerns, WhatsApp messages are private between the sender and receiver.
- group chats,
- photo sharing,
- status updates,
- shared links and
- audio files.
Most importantly, given that Facebook's user attrition is driven primarily by privacy-related concerns, WhatsApp messages are private between the sender and receiver.
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Instead
Instead of financing the service with ads and games like other services to draw eyes to advertisements, Koum and Acton made WhatsApp a free software download that would charge a nominal fee after the first year. They would make the app usable on a broad range of smartphones, from dated BlackBerrys, which they both still use for texting, to sleek new Android phones and iPhones, so that people rich and poor all over the globe could take advantage of the service.
Those early decisions allowed the company to remain small, independent and lean even as the app went viral in several parts of the world
Those early decisions allowed the company to remain small, independent and lean even as the app went viral in several parts of the world
inspiration
The inspiration for WhatsApp came after both founders left their jobs at Yahoo in 2007 and took some time off. Acton moved to New York to live with his girlfriend (and at one point proclaimed on Twitter that he had applied for a job at Facebook and had been rejected). Koum did some traveling to Argentina and other countries and realized that it was difficult to stay in touch with friends.
International area codes made it difficult for people to call him. Email was simple, but it was not as streamlined as a text message. Text messages, however, were expensive, costing at least 25 cents for each one sent from Europe to the United States. And online chat services from Google and AOL required knowing people's screen names.
Two years later, Koum returned to the United States, bought an iPhone and reunited with Acton to build WhatsApp. The service would take advantage of a phone's address book to make it as streamlined as text messaging, and it would be nearly free like other internet messaging services. Privacy was vital.
Antithesis
Koum, 38, and his co-founder, Brian Acton of Whatapps, prefer to operate lean and below the radar, with just 55 employees and a nondescript office. They despise advertising and value the privacy of their 450 million users so much that they do not even collect their names.
Zuckerberg, by contrast, has built his immensely profitable empire by collecting reams of personal data on his 1.2 billion customers and using that to sell ads aimed at them.
Koum and Zuckerberg do share a common ambition -- to connect everyone in the world using their services.
Zuckerberg, by contrast, has built his immensely profitable empire by collecting reams of personal data on his 1.2 billion customers and using that to sell ads aimed at them.
Koum and Zuckerberg do share a common ambition -- to connect everyone in the world using their services.
Constantly working to not lose anybody
"Facebook is constantly working to not lose anybody,"
Sometimes that is them
Sometimes that is them
- innovating on their own,
- mimicking competitors, and
- buying them competitors.
said Nate Elliott, an analyst with Forrester Research.
it's not a service that asks you to tell them your age when you sign up
Facebook gains access to customers who prefer communicating one-on-one or with very small groups rather than sharing information more widely.
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