( Read more: WhatsApp will add voice to messaging service)įor Zuckerberg, WhatsApp coalesces with Facebook's aim of connecting everybody in the world, a goal that's also behind .įormed last summer, the initiative has Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung working with nongovernmental organizations, mobile operators and tech firms to make Web access more affordable and accessible. … I could be wrong-there is some chance that this is the one service that gets to a billion people and ends up not being that valuable- I don't think I am."Įarlier in the day at Mobile World Congress, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said it would be offering a voice service in the second quarter.
"It's hard to exactly make that case today because they have so low revenue. "I think by itself it's worth more than $19 billion," he said. WhatsApp has more than 450 million users a month. WhatsApp is well on its way to connecting 1 billion people, Zuckerberg said, and few services in the world attain that reach without becoming valuable.
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