In 2014, WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for almost $21.8 billion - huge amount even considering that at the time the messaging app already had 500 million users. Now it looks like a bargain as the number has quadrupled. Today, WhatsApp announced that it has reached the 2 billion users milestone. That's an impressive user base growth given that in 2016, the app had 1 billion and in 2018, it had 1.5 billion users. The blog post then takes the time to remind us that WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption by default and your messages are stored on your device and not in the cloud. The...
Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/whatsapp_reaches_2_billion_users-news-41509.php
