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The service was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain View, California, which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for approximately US$19.3 billion.[21][22] It became the world's most popular messaging application by 2015,[13][23] and had more than 2 billion users worldwide by February 2020,[24] confirmed four years later by 200 million new registrations per month.[25] By 2016, it had become the primary means of Internet communication in regions including the Americas, the Indian subcontinent, and large parts of Europe and Africa.[13 To cover the cost of sending verification texts to users, WhatsApp was changed from a free service to a paid one. In December 2009, the ability to send photos was added to the iOS version. By early 2011, WhatsApp was one of the top 20 apps in the U.S. Apple App Store.[26] In April 2011, Sequoia Capital invested about $8 million for more than 15% of the company, after months of negotiation by Sequoia partner Jim Goetz.[63][64][65] By February 2013, WhatsApp had about 200 million active users and 50 staff members. Sequoia invested another $50 million, and WhatsApp was valued at $1.5 billion.[26] Some time in 2013[66] WhatsApp acquired Santa Clara–based startup SkyMobius, the developers of Vtok,[67] a video and voice calling app.[68] In a December 2013 blog post, WhatsApp claimed that 400 million active users used the service each month.[69] The year 2013 ended with $148 million in expenses, of which $138 million in losses.[70] On February 19, 2014, one year after a venture capital financing round at a $1.5 billion valuation,[39] Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) announced it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date.[22] At the time, it was the largest acquisition of a venture-capital-backed company in history.[21] Sequoia Capital received an approximate 5,000% return on its initial investment.[71] Facebook, which was advised by Allen & Co, paid $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and, advised by Morgan Stanley, an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units granted to WhatsApp's founders Koum and Acton.[72] Employee stock was scheduled to vest over four years subsequent to closing.[22] Days after the announcement, WhatsApp users experienced a loss of service, leading to anger across social media.[73] The acquisition was influenced by the data provided by Onavo, Facebook's research app for monitoring competitors and trending usage of social activities on mobile phones, as well as startups that were performing "unusually well".[74][75][76] The acquisition caused many users to try, or move to, other message services. Telegram claimed that it acquired 8 million new users.[77] and Line, 2 million.[78] At a keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp was closely related to the Internet.org vision.[79][80] A TechCrunch article said about Zuckerberg's In August 2014, WhatsApp was the most popular messaging app in the world, with more than 600 million users.[82] By early January 2015, WhatsApp had 700 million monthly users and over 30 billion messages every day.[83] In April 2015, Forbes predicted that between 2012 and 2018, the telecommunications industry would lose $386 billion because of "over-the-top" services like WhatsApp and Skype.[84] That month, WhatsApp had over 800 million users.[85][86] By September 2015, it had grown to 900 million;[87] and by February 2016, one billion.[88] On November 30, 2015, the Android WhatsApp client made links to messaging service Telegram unclickable and uncopyable.[89][90][91] Multiple sources confirmed that it was intentional, not a bug,[91] and that it had been implemented when the Android source code that recognized Telegram URLs had been identified.[91] (The word "telegram" appeared in WhatsApp's code.[91]) Some considered it an anti-competitive measure;[89][90][91] WhatsApp offered no explanation.
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