Has certainly been an exciting week for WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app that has over 450 million users?
First announced its acquisition by Facebook, which won the business to Google.
Zuckerberg’s team paid 19 billion dollars for the application, which equates to over $ 40 per application user. Expensive high price considering that each user pays a dollar maximum use the application, but a great majority got it free.
But the honeymoon soon just to the failure WhatsApp week globally, leaving tens of millions without service for hours, that disappointed many that failure related to the acquisition by Facebook.
This week again makes headlines, it is reported that he heard of WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum the service will soon add a new service: voice communication.
This new feature would come in the second quarter of 2014 for major platforms, iOS and Android, then to other platforms.
This service VOiP (Voice over Internet) could WhatsApp in direct competition with the same phone providers, which could have a not very good reaction since it competes with your business that also consume more bandwidth data.
In some countries, especially in Latin America, it could jeopardize the presence and dominance of the most popular messaging app.
Whatsapp: An exciting week for WhatsApp
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