![]() Video calls between two accounts are added. WhatsApp is introduced for both Windows and Mac operating systems. WhatsApp and Open Whisper Systems announce that they finish adding end-to-end encryption to "every form of communication" on WhatsApp, and that users could now verify each other's keys. WhatsApp introduces its document-sharing feature, initially allowing users to share PDF files with their contacts. ĭiego Dzodan, a Facebook executive, is arrested by Brazilian federal police after Facebook fails to turn over information from his WhatsApp messaging account into a judge's request for a drug trafficking investigation. There is still no clear plan for monetizing WhatsApp. Jan Koum announces that WhatsApp will no longer charge its users a $1 annual subscription fee. It is shut down in Brazil again in May 2016 and in July 2016. WhatsApp is briefly shut down in Brazil after it refuses to place wiretaps on certain WhatsApp accounts. Voice calls between two accounts are added. Users would not be able to use WhatsApp's services at all until the third-party apps are uninstalled. WhatsApp announces its policy on cracking down on 3rd-party clients, including WhatsApp+. WhatsApp launches WhatsApp Web, a web client which can be used through a web browser by syncing with the mobile device's connection. Within a week, WhatsApp introduces an update allowing users to disable this feature so that message recipients do not send acknowledgements. WhatsApp introduces a feature named Read Receipts, which alerts senders when their messages are read by recipients. Someone discovers a vulnerability in WhatsApp encryption on the Android application that allows another app to access and read all of a user's chat conversations within it. Facebook pays $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units granted to WhatsApp's founders. announces its acquisition of WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date. Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging service, launches. WhatsApp goes free, with an annual subscription fee of $1 after the first year. Sequoia invests another $50 million in Series B round, valuing WhatsApp at $1.5 billion. WhatsApp's user base swells to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50. The WhatsApp support staff announce that messages were encrypted in the "latest version" of the WhatsApp software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian), without specifying the cryptographic method. Īn unknown hacker publishes a website that makes it possible to change the status of an arbitrary WhatsApp user, as long as the phone number was known. In Series A round, WhatsApp founders agree to take $8 million from Sequoia Capital on top of their $250,000 seed funding, after months of negotiation with Sequoia partner Jim Goetz. It eventually becomes very popular in China. WhatsApp support for Android OS is added. WhatsApp for the iPhone is updated to send photos. īrian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. ![]() Antonio G.The following is a timeline of WhatsApp, a proprietary cross-platform, encrypted, instant messaging client for smartphones. Do yourself a favor and try to make the smaller 20L version work for your needs, so when you inevitably overpack it you can save your back more than I do with the 30L. The structuring of this bag and the way gear is meant to slot into its three shelves and pocket walls with side-access may not be for everyone, but if you want to carry a lot of camera and tech-adjacent gear, it offers lots of versatility. I have at times packed it with multiple full-size camera bodies, lenses, and accessories, along with either a 16-inch MacBook Pro (which is easily swallowed up in its laptop pocket) or a 13-inch MacBook Air that takes a cave-diving excursion into its inner depths. The slightly unwieldy but lovely Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L has been my main work bag for well over two years (I have the first-gen version), and it has traveled with me all over the country and beyond while holding up to abuse and looking clean in its charcoal colorway. “Laptop bag” to me is any bag that fits a laptop but also gets jam-packed with too much camera equipment.
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