Whatsapp Growth

WhatsApp, the uber popular instant messaging app, have now crossed 50 million subscribers in India and from the looks of it the speed of their growth is only accelerating. They have now forged a tie-up with India’s largest mobile service…

When Mark Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp for whooping $19 billion in the month of February, he was pretty clear about his goal: A billion WhatsApp users. And it seems he is right on the way to achieve that. In a recent blog post by WhatsApp,…

64 Billion Messages in 24 hours – That is surely a huge number. Just to put it in perspective that means around 45 million messages (sent and received) in a minute. Here is something for you to ponder. Although, I do not have…

I don’t think Whatsapp needs any introduction anymore. It is the $19 billion app that has over 400 million users and all this for doing a simple job- sending a message to someone using the same app. However, that was yesterday. Tomorrow,…

Things change pretty fast. Flashback: 2009. Brian Acton, an engineer at Yahoo tries to find a job at Facebook and Twitter, and both rejects him. This was a Tweet he sends after the rejection: He, along with his friend Jan Koum…

In a surprising move (or probably not so surprising), Facebook has bought Whatsapp for $16 billion. Facebook will pay around $4 billion in cash and the rest of the sum in Facebook shares. Whatsapp is supposed to work independently inside…

WhatsApp rise has been meteoric to say the least, especially in last 12 to 18 months. The latest numbers announced by WhatsApp on their blog may astonish you – They now have crossed 400 million monthly active users out of which around 100…

Whatsapp, one of the leading mobile messaging platforms in the world has partnered with India’s 5 largest telecom provider Tata Docomo. In this new offering, Tata Docomo will be offering unlimited whatsapp usage to its subscribers at Rs.…

Here is a quick wrap-up of the posts that were published on trak.in last week. Hope you had a great festive last week! Gecko is most probably the first Indian born hardware device which is getting unprecedented global attention. It has…

The ubiquitous ‘What’s Up’, meaning what is going on/how are you was exploited beautifully by the King of Beers Budweiser in their WASSUP campaign. Then, in 2009, two former employees of Yahoo! created something on the same name which…