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WhatsApp now has 800M monthly active users

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Messenger app WhatsApp now has 800 million monthly active users, says founder Jan Koum.

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The app is up 100 million users since January, when it hit 700 million monthly active users. The app has been expanding rapidly. Just a month ago Google Play showed that WhatsApp had been downloaded on Android over a billion times. With this type of growth the company is poised to hit a billion monthly active users by the end of the year.

Recently WhatsApp expanded its service beyond text messaging to include voice calling.

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Facebook acquired the popular messaging app for $22 billion in cash and stock in February 2014. The company has invested not only in WhatsApp, but its own messenger, which recently surpassed 600 million users.

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