Currently has bred a great number of “messengers” like WhatsApp and Viber, and competition has become high as ever – here you and LINE, and WeChat, and is rapidly growing Russian Telegram, and Heml.is, claiming to be the most secure (from one of the founders of the torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, is coming out soon). In order to keep the palm, WhatsApp, which is now owned by Facebook, will get support voice this year.

“But in WhatsApp already have voice messages” – you say, ‘and you’d be right. Do not confuse the voice messages and “live” chat on the phone, not only through the operator’s network and the Internet. This functionality is not new, it is present in said Viber – and, most likely, would be another way of monetization, it is unlikely that users will provide a sweet fruit for free.

Considering that to this day WhatsApp occupies a leading position in the market “messengers” (465 million monthly active users), would not be surprising if, after talking implementirovaniya its popularity grow even more – if, of course, will not be repeated many hours drop network because of which there is a significant outflow of users towards competitors (read: Telegram).

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The largest social network Facebook is going to get popular WhatsApp messenger for $ 16 billion. This was reported by TechCrunch citing Commission’s Securities and Exchange Commission United States.

Under the deal, WhatsApp fully join Facebook, but it will continue to operate as an independent service. In addition, one of the founders of WhatsApp and its CEO Yang Koumi take place in the board of directors of social networks.

Of the aforementioned $ 16 billion $ 4 billion Facebook pay cash, $ 12 billion – own shares (which, by the way, now is not in poverty ), as well as provide employees messenger bags restricted shares RSU 3 billion dollars. Last designed to stimulate employees to continued presence in the camp of the corporation as to exchange them for common stock only after performing employees prearranged conditions or the occurrence of certain events.

In his blog, Facebook unveiled some statistics on users WhatsApp. The monthly audience of service exceeds 450 million people, 70% of them use it daily, and the rate of new registrations when reaches an incredible one million users per day.

How did this deal will affect you and me, ordinary users WhatsApp? If we believe the company’s representatives, it does. The only source of monetization service model will “subscription” , according to which for access to WhatsApp need to pay one dollar (33 rubles) per year. No advertising banners and ads. In this first year of use will continue to be free.

By the way, on the promotion of their product team WhatsApp not spent a penny – they do not even have their advertising department. And only an investment of $ 8 million messenger drew as many as three years ago.

Just a week ago in IT-sphere was an active discussion about buying another messenger Viber Japanese company Rakuten for $ 900 million. Number of users of the service is much lower than with WhatsApp – 300 million people, but Viber offers several additional ways to earn – for example, the purchase toll stickers. In addition, the service provides free voice communication, which is also important.

Nevertheless Viber, roughly estimated at 16 times cheaper as photo service Instagram, who two years ago bought Facebook. It turns out that for each active member WhatsApp social network paid about 35 dollars. And that you understand the seriousness of the situation last fall Nokia sold its mobile division Microsoft twice cheaper.

The deal between the two companies to be completed in mid-August this year. In case of difficulty Facebook WhatsApp will pay a penalty in the amount of one billion dollars and give its shares another billion dollars.

WhatsApp application is not only for the iPhone, but also for Android, Windows Phone , BlackBerry, and many other platforms. Download iOS-version of the program at this link .

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Twitter user with the nickname HackiPhone has posted screenshots of the new network version of the popular WhatsApp Messenger for iOS 7. It is known that the development of a client is almost complete, the images are said to have captured the final version of the design of the program.

Judging by the screenshots, the new client will receive a “flat” interface in bright colors. The program is similar in design, corporate messenger Apple. At the bottom – five tabs in charge of different sections of the program: Chats, Status, Contacts, Favorites, and Settings. 

The final version of iOS 7 was released on September 18. She can upgrade to owners of the iPhone 4 and older, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini, and iPod touch 5G. At the time of publication of the article, according to Mixpanel Trends, already 68% of the users iOS-devices installed a new version of the.

WhatsApp Messenger – cross-platform instant messaging client for mobile platforms. The program for iOS using push-notifications for instant receipt of messages from friends, colleagues and family. Users use WhatsApp to send free messages, pictures, audio and video clips to other users. The program is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry and other mobile “OSes.” 

Previously, their applications to comply 7 interface iOS updated gay Facebook, microblogging service Twitter, Evernote program for notes and other popular resources. Russia’s largest social network is also preparing an update of the client . Pavel Durov, the founder of the social network said on its page, the mobile application is waiting for a light redesign in the style of iOS 7. The rewritten client “VKontakte” will be ready in a few weeks.

The new version of WhatsApp for iOS 7 is also expected in the near future. On the timing of the release is not known.

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Developers of the popular WhatsApp messenger finalizing a new version of the application that is optimized to run on the operating system iOS 7. As it became known, the updated client will get a new icon, and “flat” interface, designed as a “seven”.

The final version of iOS 7 was released on September 18. She can upgrade to owners of the iPhone 4 and older, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini, and iPod touch 5G. At the time of publication of the article, according to Mixpanel Trends, already 54% of the users iOS-devices installed a new version of the. The pace of adapting higher than those Android Jelly Bean.

WhatsApp Messenger – cross-platform instant messaging client for the iPhone and other smartphones. The program uses a push-notifications to instantly get messages from friends, colleagues and family. Users use WhatsApp to send free messages, pictures, audio and video clips to other users. The program is available on most mobile platforms.

Previously, their applications to comply 7 interface iOS updated gay Facebook, microblogging service Twitter, Evernote program for notes and other popular resources. Thus, the new Facebook disappeared “infinite” scrolling news, but at the bottom of the screen appeared static icons “Newsline”, “Queries”, “Messages” and “Alerts”, which are designed to speed up navigation. Through the “more” you can go to his chronicle, groups, events, and so on.

Renewed application integration with Twitter strengthened iOS – so there was a section in Safari Shared Links, which contains links shared by people on which you subscribe. In addition, Apple has integrated staffing music application in iOS 7 with service Twitter Music, adding, “station” with the popular music of Twitter in iTunes Radio.

It is expected that similar changes and expected WhatsApp. On the timing of release of the updated applications in the App Store is not known.

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Yesterday the developers of the popular WhatsApp messenger announced their new achievement – monthly audience of applications has passed for 300 million users. In honor of such an important event the company has decided to please its customers and added new features to WhatsApp to all platforms the ability to record and send voice recordings interlocutor.

Now for voice recordings are not so popular: users prefer or write a message or call friends or family through the same Viber or Skype. However, WhatsApp is on its way and is not going to spoil users voice-grade calls, writes The Verge. Nevertheless, it probes the ground for entering the new market.

The company also recently shared their fresh statistics: its clients send about 31 billion messages every day, 325 million of which contain photographs only. For comparison – in June WhatsApp reported 27 billion emails and 250 million active users. In just one month the application audience increased by 20%.

WhatsApp has become popular due to its cross-platform. Not everyone has iMessage, after all smartphone customers on Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone too much. All of them had a single application for easy and , until recently, free communication around the world. 

At the same time, all these messengers have certain security holes. In particular, many have long accused Viber in the transfer of personal data to third parties, WhatsApp and does not protect the correspondence of its customers. Therefore, third-party developers are already working on a messenger safest in the world for iOS and Android.

It’s amazing how a company with a staff of 45 employees was able to achieve such impressive results in such a short time. To reach the mark of 300 million accounts, the microblogging service Twitter took five years. With the current pace of growth WhatsApp would not be surprised if soon his audience will exceed half a billion users.

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