Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, making its co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton billionaires. Koum, who co-founded WhatsApp in 2009, held a 45% stake worth $6.8 billion, while Acton's 20% stake was worth $3 billion. The deal was paid for with Facebook stock and cash. WhatsApp grew rapidly from its start as a messaging app allowing international texting to having over 200 million active users prior to the acquisition. Koum and Acton's rags-to-riches story saw them rise from humble beginnings to founding one of the most successful tech companies.
Jan Koum was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He taught himself computer skills and got a job at Yahoo, where he met Brian Acton. The two later founded WhatsApp in 2009 after leaving Yahoo. WhatsApp grew rapidly and was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion. Koum donated much of the money from the sale and stepped down as WhatsApp CEO in 2018.
The document discusses various topics related to technology including companies (WhatsApp, iTunes, Luminous, OYO, Fitbit, Cisco), terms (bit, software), people (Brian Acton, Tim Cook, Vishal Gondal, Kunal Shah, Hedy Lamarr, Travis Kalanick), and products/projects (iPod Wheel, Snapchat Snaptacles, Project Ara, Sony Morpheus, Microsoft HoloLens, Apple Touch Bar, Motorola, Harambe, Nintendo, Apple Newton).
The document contains questions from a quiz called "TechnoBuzz'19". It includes 20 preliminary questions about topics related to technology and computers. Some questions identify famous software, viruses, companies and effects. The final round has 3 parts and contains additional technical questions.
Sci-Biz-Tech Quiz finals l QRIOSO ‘24 l IIM LucknowPrabhjot Singh
The document appears to be the rules and questions for rounds 1 and 2 of a science, business and technology quiz. Some key details:
- There are 3 rounds with different scoring rules for each
- Round 1 is on business and tech, round 2 on science
- Round 3 involves connecting images to a single entity
- Questions cover topics like companies, inventions, scientists and their work
Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz PrelimsQBIT Mesra
This document contains 20 multiple choice questions covering topics like country names, video games, logos, websites, inventions, and more. It tests knowledge about the origins of Argentina's name, the first video game to use scratch and sniff technology, who designed the Bitcoin logo, the domain name for websites in Antarctica, and more. The questions are paired with their multiple choice answers.
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20 General Knowledge Trivia Questions and Answers Pub Quiz for all ages!
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CHEMATHON- The Science Quiz (Finals), Resonance '21, St. Stephen's College.Jay Ingle
1. The document describes the rules for Chemathon, a science quiz being conducted by The Chemistry Society of St. Stephen's College.
2. It states there will be 30 questions with 60 seconds for each team to answer before the question moves to the next team. Teams must keep their cameras on while answering.
3. The order of answering will be reversed after the 15th question. Points will be awarded for correct answers, with some questions worth more points. The quiz master's decision on any disputes is final.
A tech quiz was conducted on 19 Oct 2015 as a part of the We Quiz series conducted by SJCE Grey Cells.
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Jan Koum was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He taught himself computer skills and got a job at Yahoo, where he met Brian Acton. The two later founded WhatsApp in 2009 after leaving Yahoo. WhatsApp grew rapidly and was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion. Koum donated much of the money from the sale and stepped down as WhatsApp CEO in 2018.
The document discusses various topics related to technology including companies (WhatsApp, iTunes, Luminous, OYO, Fitbit, Cisco), terms (bit, software), people (Brian Acton, Tim Cook, Vishal Gondal, Kunal Shah, Hedy Lamarr, Travis Kalanick), and products/projects (iPod Wheel, Snapchat Snaptacles, Project Ara, Sony Morpheus, Microsoft HoloLens, Apple Touch Bar, Motorola, Harambe, Nintendo, Apple Newton).
The document contains questions from a quiz called "TechnoBuzz'19". It includes 20 preliminary questions about topics related to technology and computers. Some questions identify famous software, viruses, companies and effects. The final round has 3 parts and contains additional technical questions.
Sci-Biz-Tech Quiz finals l QRIOSO ‘24 l IIM LucknowPrabhjot Singh
The document appears to be the rules and questions for rounds 1 and 2 of a science, business and technology quiz. Some key details:
- There are 3 rounds with different scoring rules for each
- Round 1 is on business and tech, round 2 on science
- Round 3 involves connecting images to a single entity
- Questions cover topics like companies, inventions, scientists and their work
Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz PrelimsQBIT Mesra
This document contains 20 multiple choice questions covering topics like country names, video games, logos, websites, inventions, and more. It tests knowledge about the origins of Argentina's name, the first video game to use scratch and sniff technology, who designed the Bitcoin logo, the domain name for websites in Antarctica, and more. The questions are paired with their multiple choice answers.
⭐ Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/8QBl-PR0AEo
20 General Knowledge Trivia Questions and Answers Pub Quiz for all ages!
Main channel: youtube.com/@apptato
CHEMATHON- The Science Quiz (Finals), Resonance '21, St. Stephen's College.Jay Ingle
1. The document describes the rules for Chemathon, a science quiz being conducted by The Chemistry Society of St. Stephen's College.
2. It states there will be 30 questions with 60 seconds for each team to answer before the question moves to the next team. Teams must keep their cameras on while answering.
3. The order of answering will be reversed after the 15th question. Points will be awarded for correct answers, with some questions worth more points. The quiz master's decision on any disputes is final.
A tech quiz was conducted on 19 Oct 2015 as a part of the We Quiz series conducted by SJCE Grey Cells.
*The images used are all owned by respected owners. We do not claim ownership of any images.
The document contains a prelims section outlining the rules for 20 multiple choice questions with +1 point for each correct answer and no negatives. It then lists 20 questions with answer options to identify people, companies, terms, and their descriptions. The questions cover topics in technology, business, and history.
Biz-Tech Quiz prelim held on 8th Nov,2011 as a part of Intra-College Quiz-Fest 2.0 at BMSCE,Bangalore.
By - Himadri Banerjee
Assisted by - Sharath Babu and Akshath
This document appears to be a quiz about information technology topics. It contains 6 rounds of multiple choice or short answer questions on topics like game engines, internet companies, logos, and technology advertisements. The questions cover a wide range of IT topics and history. The format provides points for correct answers and allows teams to compete directly against each other.
This document outlines the rules for a 20 question quiz being conducted by Veda The Quiz Society. It provides details like there being 1 point per question, answers must be submitted via a Google Forms link, no internet searching allowed, QM's decision is final, and answers will be revealed at the end. It then lists 20 multiple choice or fill in the blank style questions on various topics to be answered as part of the quiz.
- Microsoft recently patented a feature of HoloLens that allows tracking everyday items in the background, which some see as an inefficient way to find keys.
- The Indian government launched an app with Google called the "Google Toilet Locator" as part of the Swachh Bharat Initiative.
- Redditgifts is an online gift exchange that connects users around the world for Secret Santa gift exchanges, with famous participants like Bill Gates and Snoop Dogg.
1. The document discusses a science, business and technology quiz with 20 questions. It provides the rules for the quiz and begins with the first question.
2. The first few questions and answers of the quiz are then summarized, covering topics like Hagoromo chalk, yakhchal ice pits, the NFL needing to train commentators on Microsoft Surface tablets, and details on Nike Vaporfly shoes.
3. The summary touches on other questions about deepfakes in Indian political campaigns, X-ray technicians experiencing radiation exposure, Google's efforts to redirect ISIS search results, and the moon landing being demonstrated in a video.
The document summarizes an upcoming quiz hosted by Ashwin Murali in Coimbatore, India. The quiz will contain questions on sports, movies, Coimbatore, India and other topics. It will have multiple rounds and connect questions. No formal rules but the goal is to have fun. The quizmaster reserves the right to be the final authority on questions and answers.
1. The document is a quiz containing questions about various companies and brands for a business and technology quiz finals.
2. It includes 6 multiple choice questions about companies like Gillette, Lenskart, UNO, and topics like the orientation of currency in some countries.
3. The questions are part of a finals quiz for a Biz-Tech event hosted by several Quiz Masters in association with another group.
The document provides rules for the AlphaBit'21 Q?Bit finals trivia competition. It consists of 25 questions in a grid format, plus a long visual connect question. Teams can choose any question and have 10 seconds to "pounce" or attempt to answer before the other team. The order of questioning reverses after 12 questions. Correct answers receive +10 points, while incorrect pounce answers receive -5 points. There is no passing or part points for pounces. The question master's decisions are final. It also lists categories for a long visual connect and tiebreaker questions.
X was assassinated in the late 16th century while returning from the Deccan region of India. He was killed in a plot orchestrated by Mughal Prince Salim, who later became the Emperor Jahangir, because X opposed Salim's accession to the throne. X is better known for other reasons beyond just his assassination. He has not been identified in the question.
Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He showed an early aptitude for computers, writing his first program at age 13. Though accepted to Harvard, Gates dropped out in his junior year to start Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen in 1975. Gates helped grow Microsoft into the global software giant and leader in technology it is today, developing operating systems and business solutions. He has since dedicated himself to philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focusing on global health and education initiatives around the world.
General Quiz conducted by me on 17 February 2019 in IITD's Jwalamukhi Hostel as a part of their annual fest.
Boquets/Brickbats to amlansarkr@gmail.com or Amlan Sarkar in Facebook.
- The document is a quiz on the Indian economy containing 15 multiple choice questions covering topics such as green car loans, investor protection funds, non-core assets, export promotion organizations, and container port rankings.
- The questions are in a subjective/fill-in-the-blank format with no negative marking and guessing is allowed.
- The quiz master's decision is final and the participants are asked to silence their mobile devices during the quiz.
1. The device being described is a mouse. Additional clues included it being an input device and having a wheel or scroll function.
2. The phenomenon being explained is aerodynamic lift. Key details included boundary layer transitioning from laminar to turbulent, and the turbulent layer separating earlier over the top surface, creating a pressure differential and side force.
3. The concept being referred to is a space elevator. It was first proposed by Tsiolkovsky in 1895 and later inspired Clarke's novel describing it being constructed from buckminsterfullerene.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about science, history, and pop culture. Some questions identify famous figures like scientists and their contributions, internet memes, business acquisitions, and scientific discoveries. Other questions test knowledge in areas like Roman law, physics, and technology.
1. The earliest known use of the term "X" in sports was in 1992 when Michael Jordan's wife started X Inc. to commercialize his brand. Now "X" is commonly used as an acronym for the best athlete in a sport, which likely traces back to Jordan.
2. A famous sports incident can be modeled by a basic parabolic equation involving a height of 1.038m reached with an initial velocity of 4.51m/s over a distance of 4.57m in 0.98s.
3. Rafe Bartholomew named his book on the Philippine's obsession with basketball "Kingdom of X" after covering the country's professional basketball league.
This document provides biographical information about Ekta Kapoor, an Indian television producer and director, and her company Balaji Telefilms. It states that Ekta Kapoor was born in 1975 in Mumbai to film star parents and showed no early interest in entertainment. She graduated with a commerce degree and incorporated Balaji Telefilms in 1994. Balaji Telefilms found early success with shows like "Hum Paanch" and rose to prominence in the late 1990s and 2000s with hit shows like "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi". The document notes Ekta Kapoor's success is due to her understanding of audiences, focus on budgets, and hard work. It outlines some of the
The document contains a prelims section outlining the rules for 20 multiple choice questions with +1 point for each correct answer and no negatives. It then lists 20 questions with answer options to identify people, companies, terms, and their descriptions. The questions cover topics in technology, business, and history.
Biz-Tech Quiz prelim held on 8th Nov,2011 as a part of Intra-College Quiz-Fest 2.0 at BMSCE,Bangalore.
By - Himadri Banerjee
Assisted by - Sharath Babu and Akshath
This document appears to be a quiz about information technology topics. It contains 6 rounds of multiple choice or short answer questions on topics like game engines, internet companies, logos, and technology advertisements. The questions cover a wide range of IT topics and history. The format provides points for correct answers and allows teams to compete directly against each other.
This document outlines the rules for a 20 question quiz being conducted by Veda The Quiz Society. It provides details like there being 1 point per question, answers must be submitted via a Google Forms link, no internet searching allowed, QM's decision is final, and answers will be revealed at the end. It then lists 20 multiple choice or fill in the blank style questions on various topics to be answered as part of the quiz.
- Microsoft recently patented a feature of HoloLens that allows tracking everyday items in the background, which some see as an inefficient way to find keys.
- The Indian government launched an app with Google called the "Google Toilet Locator" as part of the Swachh Bharat Initiative.
- Redditgifts is an online gift exchange that connects users around the world for Secret Santa gift exchanges, with famous participants like Bill Gates and Snoop Dogg.
1. The document discusses a science, business and technology quiz with 20 questions. It provides the rules for the quiz and begins with the first question.
2. The first few questions and answers of the quiz are then summarized, covering topics like Hagoromo chalk, yakhchal ice pits, the NFL needing to train commentators on Microsoft Surface tablets, and details on Nike Vaporfly shoes.
3. The summary touches on other questions about deepfakes in Indian political campaigns, X-ray technicians experiencing radiation exposure, Google's efforts to redirect ISIS search results, and the moon landing being demonstrated in a video.
The document summarizes an upcoming quiz hosted by Ashwin Murali in Coimbatore, India. The quiz will contain questions on sports, movies, Coimbatore, India and other topics. It will have multiple rounds and connect questions. No formal rules but the goal is to have fun. The quizmaster reserves the right to be the final authority on questions and answers.
1. The document is a quiz containing questions about various companies and brands for a business and technology quiz finals.
2. It includes 6 multiple choice questions about companies like Gillette, Lenskart, UNO, and topics like the orientation of currency in some countries.
3. The questions are part of a finals quiz for a Biz-Tech event hosted by several Quiz Masters in association with another group.
The document provides rules for the AlphaBit'21 Q?Bit finals trivia competition. It consists of 25 questions in a grid format, plus a long visual connect question. Teams can choose any question and have 10 seconds to "pounce" or attempt to answer before the other team. The order of questioning reverses after 12 questions. Correct answers receive +10 points, while incorrect pounce answers receive -5 points. There is no passing or part points for pounces. The question master's decisions are final. It also lists categories for a long visual connect and tiebreaker questions.
X was assassinated in the late 16th century while returning from the Deccan region of India. He was killed in a plot orchestrated by Mughal Prince Salim, who later became the Emperor Jahangir, because X opposed Salim's accession to the throne. X is better known for other reasons beyond just his assassination. He has not been identified in the question.
Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He showed an early aptitude for computers, writing his first program at age 13. Though accepted to Harvard, Gates dropped out in his junior year to start Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen in 1975. Gates helped grow Microsoft into the global software giant and leader in technology it is today, developing operating systems and business solutions. He has since dedicated himself to philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focusing on global health and education initiatives around the world.
General Quiz conducted by me on 17 February 2019 in IITD's Jwalamukhi Hostel as a part of their annual fest.
Boquets/Brickbats to amlansarkr@gmail.com or Amlan Sarkar in Facebook.
- The document is a quiz on the Indian economy containing 15 multiple choice questions covering topics such as green car loans, investor protection funds, non-core assets, export promotion organizations, and container port rankings.
- The questions are in a subjective/fill-in-the-blank format with no negative marking and guessing is allowed.
- The quiz master's decision is final and the participants are asked to silence their mobile devices during the quiz.
1. The device being described is a mouse. Additional clues included it being an input device and having a wheel or scroll function.
2. The phenomenon being explained is aerodynamic lift. Key details included boundary layer transitioning from laminar to turbulent, and the turbulent layer separating earlier over the top surface, creating a pressure differential and side force.
3. The concept being referred to is a space elevator. It was first proposed by Tsiolkovsky in 1895 and later inspired Clarke's novel describing it being constructed from buckminsterfullerene.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about science, history, and pop culture. Some questions identify famous figures like scientists and their contributions, internet memes, business acquisitions, and scientific discoveries. Other questions test knowledge in areas like Roman law, physics, and technology.
1. The earliest known use of the term "X" in sports was in 1992 when Michael Jordan's wife started X Inc. to commercialize his brand. Now "X" is commonly used as an acronym for the best athlete in a sport, which likely traces back to Jordan.
2. A famous sports incident can be modeled by a basic parabolic equation involving a height of 1.038m reached with an initial velocity of 4.51m/s over a distance of 4.57m in 0.98s.
3. Rafe Bartholomew named his book on the Philippine's obsession with basketball "Kingdom of X" after covering the country's professional basketball league.
This document provides biographical information about Ekta Kapoor, an Indian television producer and director, and her company Balaji Telefilms. It states that Ekta Kapoor was born in 1975 in Mumbai to film star parents and showed no early interest in entertainment. She graduated with a commerce degree and incorporated Balaji Telefilms in 1994. Balaji Telefilms found early success with shows like "Hum Paanch" and rose to prominence in the late 1990s and 2000s with hit shows like "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi". The document notes Ekta Kapoor's success is due to her understanding of audiences, focus on budgets, and hard work. It outlines some of the
Ekta Kapoor founded Balaji Telefilms in 1994 and changed the Indian television industry. Initially, her shows struggled but she eventually found success with family dramas like "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi". This made her a dominant force in television. However, she also faced criticism for promoting regressive gender roles. Her entrepreneurial success is attributed to understanding audience preferences, managing costs, and maintaining control over production.
Ekta Kapoor is the creative head of Balaji Telefilms, which she incorporated in 1994. Under her leadership, Balaji Telefilms redefined the Indian television space with hit shows like "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" and rose to unprecedented heights in the late 1990s and 2000s. Ekta Kapoor's success is attributed to her ability to understand her target audience and focus on budget-friendly, profitable productions. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to the television industry and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Recently, Ekta Kapoor has also expanded Balaji Telefilms' operations into the Bhojpuri film industry through new
Mark Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in New York and grew up interested in programming. He created several programs in middle school and high school, including a music program called Synapse. Zuckerberg attended Harvard University but dropped out in his sophomore year to focus on Facebook. He launched Facebook in 2004 while at Harvard as a social networking site for students, which expanded rapidly. Though faced with legal issues, Facebook became very successful and Zuckerberg is now one of the richest people in the world with a net worth of over $4 billion.
WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging app founded in 2009 and based in California. It is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows, Android, and Nokia. Key features include no login/logout required, no international charges, support for multimedia like photos and videos, and group chat functionality. It has over 400 million active users and processed over 54 billion messages on New Year's Eve. While it has strong brand loyalty and market leadership, WhatsApp faces threats from competition from other messaging apps.
Whatsapp ( history , fb allience and intresting facts about whatsapp)Harish Godiyal
this slide contains brief and to the point information about the most successful messaging app WHATSAPP
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* history information
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Jan Koum was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He taught himself computer skills and got a job at Yahoo, where he met Brian Acton. In 2009, they left Yahoo with $400,000 in savings and founded WhatsApp after being rejected from jobs at Facebook. WhatsApp grew rapidly and was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion. Koum donated over $500 million to charitable foundations.
Koum and Acton founded WhatsApp in 2009 after leaving their jobs at Yahoo. WhatsApp allows users to share text, images, and videos with individuals and groups. It was originally created for users to post status updates associated with their phone number. Koum came up with the idea for WhatsApp after purchasing his first iPhone and realizing the potential of mobile apps. He incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in 2009 and named it based on how "What's up" sounds. Early versions kept crashing but Acton encouraged Koum to continue developing it for a few more months.
Jan Koum was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the US as a teenager after living in poverty. He taught himself computer skills and co-founded WhatsApp with Brian Acton, creating a simple messaging app that grew rapidly in users. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, making Koum a billionaire and member of Facebook's board of directors. WhatsApp now has over 450 million active users worldwide.
Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and initially launched at Harvard University. It quickly expanded to other universities and incorporated as a company in 2004. Throughout the 2000s, Facebook grew rapidly in users and revenue, reaching over 350 million users by 2009. However, competing social networks like MySpace struggled as Facebook focused more on the user experience rather than monetization, maintaining a consistent interface across the site that was easy for all users. MySpace's heavy advertising and complicated customization alienated users and contributed to its decline while Facebook continued growing into the dominant social media platform.
Access 2016 - Sub Junior Quiz Prelims Questions+AnswersBits N Bytes
The Questions and Answers of the Preliminary Round of the Sub-Junior Quiz at Access 2016, held on 16th and 17th of December, 2016
Prepared by - Apratim Chandra Singh, Ayan Marwaha, Paavas Bhasin
Brian Acton and Jan Koum founded WhatsApp in 2009 based in Mountain View, California. Acton was born in the USA and studied at the University of Florida while Koum was born in Ukraine and studied at San Jose University. They both previously worked for Yahoo for 20 years. In 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion. WhatsApp is a popular messaging app that allows users to send text and audio messages on their smartphones.
WhatsApp is a messaging app created in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum that allows users to send messages, images, videos and voice calls using the internet. It grew to over 1 billion daily users and was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion. While popular for its features like group chats, it originally had security and privacy issues since messages were not encrypted. It has since added end-to-end encryption and "smart filters" to address these problems.
The document discusses the origins and founders of Amazon, the webcam, and their impacts. It describes how Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 after quitting his job on Wall Street to start an online bookstore out of his garage. It also discusses how the webcam was invented at the University of Cambridge to monitor the coffee pot outside their lab, and how Jennifer Ringley launched Jennicam to broadcast her daily life online for 7 years. Both Amazon and webcams introduced new forms of communication and media sharing over the internet.
The passage discusses Zacharias, who grew up Anglican but became an atheist until attempting suicide at age 17. After failing to take poison, he accepted Christianity after his mother read the Gospel of John to him in the hospital. As an author, Zacharias addresses tough questions skeptics have about Christianity in his book, including why God allows suffering if He is supposed to make our lives wonderful. He answers that human brokenness leads to suffering, and when God does not fulfill desires, emotions take over, causing some to doubt or abandon faith.
From the document, we learn:
- The Internet began in the 1970s as interconnected networks known as ARPANET, and the term "Internet" was first used in 1974 to describe these interconnected networks.
- The World Wide Web was created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee as a system of hyperlinked documents accessed via the Internet using URLs and HTTP.
- Popular early applications included email, bulletin boards, Usenet, and Mosaic, the first graphical web browser. The 1990s saw a boom in websites, browsers, e-commerce, blogging, and social media like Friendster, MySpace and Facebook.
This document provides information about various technology companies, products, and terms:
1. It identifies companies that were acquired by larger companies (e.g. Cadabra acquired by Amazon).
2. It asks the reader to identify logos, products, and technologies (e.g. the first NFT, the name of Bluetooth technology).
3. It asks trivia questions about companies, products, slogans, and people in technology (e.g. the "Blue screen of death", Virgin Galactic, Edge browser).
Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former Yahoo employees, founded WhatsApp in 2009. Acton was unemployed at the time but managed to get five friends from Yahoo to invest $250,000 in seed funding for WhatsApp. In the early days from 2009-2014, WhatsApp grew to over 600 million active users worldwide by focusing on providing an alternative to SMS that allowed sharing of text, photos and videos between users. In 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion.
This document provides an overview of the WhatsApp messaging application. It discusses the founders of WhatsApp and how the app works using the XMPP protocol. The document also covers how to download and install WhatsApp, its key features, and future potential for the platform.
This document discusses the rapid changes in media and technology over the past decade. It notes that traditional print media like newspapers have seen declines while digital media like websites, apps and social media have grown dramatically. New technologies like smartphones, tablets and high-speed internet have also transformed how people consume and share information. The document concludes by emphasizing how quickly the media landscape continues to evolve and change.
This document discusses the rapid changes in media and technology over the past decade. It notes that while print media circulation is down, online readers are up significantly. Traditional advertising is in decline while digital advertising is growing. Mobile devices are increasingly the primary internet access point. Social media has also grown exponentially and played a major role in recent global events. The pace of technological change continues to accelerate.
Jan Koum is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014. He grew up in Ukraine and immigrated to the US in 1992 where he worked various jobs before studying computer programming. He co-founded WhatsApp in 2009 and it grew extremely popular, catching the attention of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. They met several times before Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, making Koum a billionaire. He resigned from Facebook in 2018.
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The ARPAnet, the precursor to the Internet, was established in 1969 connecting four major U.S. universities for research and communication. In 1972, Ray Tomlinson introduced electronic mail using the @ symbol to distinguish sender and network names. The TCP/IP protocols established in 1983 became the standard for communication between computers on the Internet. Major developments in the 1980s and 90s included the establishment of domain names, web browsers like Mosaic and Netscape, and the introduction of the World Wide Web. Growth accelerated in the late 1990s with the commercialization of the Internet and rise of search engines, social media, and online commerce.
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The document provides information about the history and key milestones of Facebook and WhatsApp. It discusses how Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and has since expanded globally. WhatsApp was founded in 2009 and allows users to send messages, images, and videos across platforms. In 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion. The document also reviews other popular social networking platforms and messaging applications that preceded Facebook and WhatsApp, such as ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Skype.
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The document provides an overview of key aspects of developing a marketing plan, including understanding the purpose and components of a marketing plan, conducting marketing research, analyzing the internal and external environment, and establishing goals and strategies. A marketing plan addresses where the business has been, where it wants to go, and how it will get there. It involves situational analysis, defining the target market and opportunities/threats, setting goals and objectives, and developing integrated strategies for product, price, placement, and promotion. Marketing research from primary and secondary sources informs the planning process.
The document discusses various aspects of organizing a business, including developing a management team, legal business structures, designing an organizational plan, and establishing advisory boards. It provides details on proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations as legal structures; considerations for developing job descriptions and specifications; and the roles and selection criteria for boards of directors and advisory boards.
The Business Plan: Creating and Starting the Venturegohar321
The document discusses the importance of creating a comprehensive business plan that includes an executive summary, environmental and industry analysis, description of the venture, production/operational plan, marketing plan, organizational plan, risk assessment, financial projections, and appendix. An effective business plan provides investors a complete understanding of the business and helps entrepreneurs clarify their thinking. It also guides operations and establishes goals for the first year. Reasons for business plan failure include unreasonable goals, lack of commitment, insufficient experience, and not establishing customer need.
The Business Plan: Creating and Starting the Venturegohar321
The document discusses the importance of a business plan for starting a new venture. It explains that a business plan provides guidance, helps determine viability, and is an important tool for obtaining financing. The business plan should integrate functional plans like marketing, finance, and HR. It should be prepared by the entrepreneur with input from advisors and consider the perspectives of entrepreneurs, investors, and lenders. Potential lenders and investors will evaluate characteristics like the management team, product, resources, and financial projections presented in the business plan. Developing thorough information on market opportunities, production needs, and financial forecasts is essential for the business plan.
This document discusses considerations for entrepreneurs starting e-commerce ventures. It covers topics like the components of e-commerce businesses, including front-end operations like websites and back-end operations like databases. It emphasizes that successful e-commerce requires an integrated approach to both front-end and back-end operations. The document also provides tips for creating effective websites and tracking customer information through databases. It notes entrepreneurs must decide whether to outsource e-commerce operations or manage them in-house. Overall, the document offers strategic advice about how entrepreneurs can leverage e-commerce creatively for their new businesses.
The document discusses various creative problem solving techniques including brainstorming, reverse brainstorming, forced relationships, collective notebook method, big-dream approach, and parameter analysis. It also outlines the product planning and development process, which involves establishing evaluation criteria and testing ideas, concepts, and products at the idea, concept, development, test marketing, and commercialization stages. The process aims to identify promising ideas and eliminate impractical ones to determine consumer acceptance and the likelihood of commercial success before fully launching a product.
The document discusses various methods for generating new business ideas, including focus groups, brainstorming, brainwriting, and problem inventory analysis. Focus groups involve a moderator leading a discussion with 8-14 participants to generate and screen ideas, while brainstorming allows individuals to freely suggest ideas without criticism to stimulate creativity. Brainwriting is a written form of brainstorming where ideas are written on cards or forms passed around a group. Problem inventory analysis provides consumers a list of problems and asks them to identify products with those issues.
The Nature and Importance of Entrepreneursgohar321
This document summarizes key points from Chapter 1 of the textbook on the nature and importance of entrepreneurs. It defines what an entrepreneur is and discusses the entrepreneurial decision process. It describes the different types of startups such as lifestyle firms, foundation companies, and high-potential ventures. It also examines the role of entrepreneurship in economic development through innovation and commercializing new products and services.
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
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1. Story of the week....................
WhatsApp's Brian Acton and Jan Koum (Photo: Robert Gallagher for Forbes)
2. Story of the week....................
Facebook just made two more Silicon Valley entrepreneurs into
billionaires (News).
On Wednesday, the Silicon Valley (Menlo Park, Calif.) - based company
announced a record $19 billion for messaging service WhatsApp, instantly
taking its cofounders Jan Koum and Brian Acton into the realm of 10-
figure fortunes. FORBES estimates that Koum held about a 45% stake in
the company, while Acton’s stake was over 20%.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook said it
would be paying for the deal with nearly 184 million shares, $4 billion in
cash and nearly 46 million restricted stock units (RSUs), valuing the
acquisition at over $19 billion. After disregarding the RSUs, which are not
immediately exercisable, and assessing taxes, FORBES estimates that
Koum is worth $6.8 billion while Acton is worth at least $3 billion as of
Facebook’s closing share price on Wednesday
3. Story of the week....................
Koum was born and raised in a small village outside of Kiev,
Ukraine, the only child of a housewife and a construction
manager.
His house had no hot water, and his parents rarely talked on the
phone in case it was tapped by the state.
At 16, Koum and his mother immigrated to Mountain View
(California), a result of the troubling political and anti-
Semitic environment, and got a small two-bedroom apartment
through government assistance. His dad never made it over.
Koum’s mother took up babysitting and Koum swept the floor of
a grocery store to help make ends meet. When his mother was
diagnosed with cancer, they lived off her disability allowance.
4. Story of the week....................
By 18 Koum taught himself computer networking by
purchasing manuals from a used book store and returning
them when he was done. He joined a hacker group called
woowoo on the Efnet internet relay chat network, squirreled
into the servers of Silicon Graphics and chatted with Napster co-
founder Sean Fanning.
He enrolled at San Jose State University and moonlighted (to
work at another job often at night) at Ernst & Young as a security
tester. In 1997, he found himself sitting across a desk from
Acton, Yahoo employee 44, to inspect the company’s advertising
system.
It turned out Koum liked Acton’s no-nonsense style. “Neither of
them has no ability to bullshit.
5. Story of the week....................
Six months later Koum interviewed at Yahoo and got a job as an
infrastructure engineer. He was still at San Jose State University
when two weeks into his job at Yahoo, one of the company’s
servers broke. Yahoo cofounder David Filo called his mobile for
help. “I’m in class,” Koum answered discreetly. “What the fuck
are you doing in class?” Filo said. “Get your ass into the office.”
Filo had a small team of server engineers and needed all the
help he could get. “I hated school anyway,” Koum says. He
dropped out.
Over the next nine years the pair watched Yahoo go through
multiple ups and downs. Acton invested in the dotcom
boom, and lost millions in the 2000 bust.
6. Story of the week....................
For all of Acton’s distaste for advertising now he was also deep in
it back then, getting pulled in to help launch Yahoo’s important
and much-delayed advertising platform Project Panama in 2006.
“Dealing with ads is depressing,” he says now. “You don’t make
anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.” He
was emotionally drained. “I could see it on him in the hallways,”
says Koum, who wasn’t enjoying things either.
In September 2007 Koum and Acton finally left Yahoo and took a
year to decompress, traveling around South America and playing
ultimate frisbee.
Both applied, and failed, to work at Facebook.
7. Story of the week....................
Koum was eating into his $400,000 in savings from Yahoo, and
drifting. Then in January 2009, he bought an iPhone and realized
that the seven-month old App Store was about to spawn a whole
new industry of apps.
He visited the home of Alex Fishman, a Russian friend who
would invite the local Russian community to his place in West
San Jose for weekly pizza and movie nights. Up to 40 people
sometimes showed up. The two of them stood for hours talking
about Koum’s idea for an app over tea at Fishman’s kitchen
counter. “Jan was showing me his address book,” recalls
Fishman. “His thinking was it would be really cool to have
statuses next to individual names of the people.” The statuses
would show if you were on a call, your battery was low, or you
were at the gym.
8. Story of the week....................
Koum could do the backend, but he needed an iPhone
developer, so Fishman introduced Koum to Igor Solomennikov, a
developer in Russia that he’d found on RentACoder.com.
Koum almost immediately chose the name WhatsApp because it
sounded like “what’s up,” and a week later on his birthday, Feb.
24, 2009, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California. The app
hadn’t even been written yet. Koum spent days creating the
backend code to synch his app with any phone number in the
world, poring over a Wikipedia entry that listed international
dialing prefixes — he would spend many infuriating months
updating it for the hundreds of regional nuances.
9. Story of the week....................
Help came from Apple when it launched push notifications in
June 2009, letting developers ping users when they weren’t
using an app. Jan updated WhatsApp so that each time you
changed your status — “Can’t talk, I’m at the gym” — it would
ping everyone in your network.
Fishman’s Russian friends started using it to ping each other with
jokey custom statuses like, “I woke up late,” or “I’m on my way.”
“At some point it sort of became instant messaging,” says
Fishman. “We started using it as ‘Hey how are you?’ And then
someone would reply.” Jan watched the changing statuses on a
Mac Mini at his town house in Santa Clara, and realized he’d
inadvertently created a messaging service. “Being able to reach
somebody half way across the world instantly, on a device that is
always with you, was powerful,” says Koum.
10. Story of the week....................
The only other free texting service around at the time was
BlackBerry’s BBM, but that only worked among BlackBerries.
There was Google’s G-Talk and Skype, but WhatsApp was unique
in that the login was your own phone number. Koum released
WhatsApp 2.0 with a messaging component and watched his
active users suddenly swell to 250,000. He went to see Acton,
who was still unemployed and dabbling in another startup idea
that wasn’t going anywhere.
11. Story of the week....................
The two sat at Acton’s kitchen table and started sending
messages to each other on WhatsApp, already with the famous
double check mark that showed another phone had received a
message. Acton realized he was looking at a potentially richer
SMS experience – and more effective than the so-called MMS
messages for sending photos and other media that often didn’t
work. “You had the whole open-ended bounty of the Internet to
work with,” he says.
In October Acton got five ex-Yahoo friends to invest $250,000 in
seed funding, and as a result was granted cofounder status and a
stake. He officially joined on Nov. 1.
12. Story of the week....................
The pair were getting flooded with emails from iPhone users,
excited by the prospect of international free texting and
desperate to “WhatsApp” their friends on Nokias and
BlackBerries. With Android just a blip on the radar, Koum hired
an old friend who lived in LA, Chris Peiffer to make the
BlackBerry version of WhatsApp. “I was skeptical,” Peiffer
remembers. “People have SMS, right?” Koum explained that
people’s texts were actually metered in different countries. “It
stinks,” he told him. “It’s a dead technology like a fax machine
left over from the seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for
carriers.” Peiffer looked at the eye-popping user growth and
joined.
13. Story of the week....................
With Koum and Acton working for free for the first few years,
their biggest early cost was sending verification texts to users.
Today SMS verification runs the company about $500,000 a
month. The costs weren’t so steep back then, but high enough to
drain Koum’s bank account. Fortunately WhatsApp was gradually
bringing in revenue, roughly $5,000 a month by early 2010 and
enough to cover the costs then. The founders occasionally
switched the app from “free” to “paid” so they wouldn’t grow
too fast. In Dec. 2009 they updated WhatsApp for the iPhone to
send photos, and were shocked to see user growth increasing
even when it had the $1 price tag. “You know, I think we can
actually stay paid,” Acton told Koum.
14. Story of the week....................
By early 2011 WhatsApp was squarely in the top 20 of all apps in
the U.S. App Store.
Venture capitalists didn’t need the press to tell them WhatsApp
was going viral. Koum and Acton were batting away all requests
to talk. Acton saw VC funding as a bailout. But Sequoia partner
Jim Goetz was persistent, spending eight months working his
contacts to get either founder to engage. He’d met with a dozen
other companies in the messaging space like Pinger, Tango and
Baluga, but it was clear WhatsApp was the leader, and to Goetz’s
surprise the startup was already paying corporate income taxes:
“The only time I’ve seen that in my venture career
15. Story of the week....................
Goetz eventually sat down with Koum and Acton at the Red Rock
Cafe, answered a “barrage” of their questions and promised not
to push advertising models on them but act as a strategic
advisor. They eventually agreed to take $8 million from Sequoia.
Two years later in Feb. 2013, when WhatsApp’s user base had
swelled to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50,
Acton and Koum agreed it was time to raise some more money.
“For insurance,” says Acton, who recalled that his mother, who
ran her own freight forwarding businesses, used to lose sleep
over making payroll. “You never want to be a position where you
can’t make payroll.” They decided to hold a second funding
round, in secret. Sequoia would invest another $50 million,
valuing WhatsApp at $1.5 billion.
16. Story of the week....................
Now with an even bigger number in whatsapp bank account,
Acton went to a local landlord, interested in leasing a new three-
story building around the corner. The landlord didn’t know who
WhatsApp was, but the money talked. The new building is now
under construction, and WhatsApp will move in this summer as
its staff doubles to 100.
In early February 2014, Koum zooms past the new building in his
Porsche on the way to a boxing class that he often misses, and is
now late for.