Shadman Ishrak gave a presentation on the messaging app WhatsApp. WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, former Yahoo employees. It now has over 1 billion active users who send 42 billion messages and share 250 million videos daily in 53 supported languages. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19.3 billion in 2014. The presentation covered WhatsApp's origin, current usage statistics, competitors like Viber and WeChat, and future plans to offer new features like voice mail and business messaging.

1. CLASS PRESENTATION
Prepared by:
Shadman Ishrak

2. Presentation Topic
WhatsApp Messenger
One of the largest instant messaging apps in the world
Developer : WhatsApp Inc.
Acquired by Facebook in 2014 for 19.3 billion dollars
Programming Language: Erlang
Operating systems

3. CONTENTS
Origin Current
scenario
Market
Analysis
Future
Plans
1 2 3 4
Origin
Current
scenario
Market
analysis
Future
plans

4. ORIGIN
Jan Koum Brian Acton
Both former employees of
Yahoo!
Founders
Founding year: 2009
Incorporated on 24th
February,2009
Based on the idea that contact
list should have more
information than just numbers.

5. Initial Status:
Small number of
users
Unstable
Depended on user
verification texts for
money
Breakthrough
Introduction of push notification. Number of
users escalated to 250,000.

6. Current
Scenario
1 Billion active users
1.6 million photos shared per
day
42 billion messages sent per
day
53 languages supported1 Billion groups
250 Million videos shared per
day

7. Market
Analysis
Prime Competitors
Viber
900 Million 8.5 Billion
WeChat
83 BillionNet Worth

8. Numberofactiveusersinmillions

9. Current stats of instant messaging
apps in 2016
900 Million Users
800 Million Users
650 Million Users
249 Million Users
300 Million Users

10. Plans for the future
What they offer now
Text Messaging
Image Sharing
Video Sharing
Audio file sharing
What they will offer
Voice Mail
Companies can text their
customers directly via WhatsApp

11. THANK YOU