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WhatsApp announced that it now has more than 700 million monthly active users. The service is now handling over 30 billion messages per day.
The number of monthly active users was about 450 million in February 2014, when Facebook first announced plans to acquire WhatsApp.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152994719980011&id=500035010
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
