social media-watsapp

1. K.L.E. Society’s
College of Education
Vidyanagar, Hubballi
SEMINAR ON ICT
NAME: KHEZIA OLAGUNDI.
CLASS: B.Ed 2nd sem.
R.NO: 42.
TOPIC: SOCIAL MEDIA- WATSAPP

2. WATSAPP
Whatsapp is a social media platform -
On WhatsApp, you can share text, images,
and videos to other users as individuals and
groups. ... WhatsApp was originally created
as an app to post dynamic status updates
associated with your phone number.

4. ABOUT
• WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Brian
Acton and Jan Koum, former employees
of Yahoo!. After leaving Yahoo! in September
2007, they took some time off in South
America. At one point, they applied for jobs at
Facebook but were rejected.

5. • In January 2009, after purchasing an iPhone and
realizing the potential of the app industry on the App
Store, Koum and Acton began visiting Koum's friend
Alex Fishman in West San Jose to discuss a new type
of messaging app that would "[show] statuses next
to individual names of the people". They realized
that to take the idea further, they'd need an iPhone
developer. Fishman visited RentACoder.com, found
Russian developer Igor Solomennikov, and
introduced him to Koum.

6. • Koum named the app WhatsApp to sound like
"what's up". On February 24, 2009, he
incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California.
However, when early versions of WhatsApp
kept crashing, Koum considered giving up and
looking for a new job. Acton encouraged him
to wait for a "few more months".