Whatsapp

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• WhatsApp Inc., was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton
  as well as Jan Koum, both previous staff members
  of Yahoo!. After Koum and also Acton left Yahoo!
• In September 2007, the duo travelled to South
  Americaas a break from job.
• presented Koum to Igor Solomennikov, a developer
  in Russia that he had found on RentACoder.com.
  Koum virtually right away chose the name
  "WhatsApp" considering that it seemed like
  "exactly what's up", as well as a week in the
  future his birthday, on February 24, 2009, he
  included WhatsApp Inc

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WhatsApp was formally made available for PCs with
an internet client, under the name WhatsApp Web,
in late January 2015 with a statement made by
Koum on his Facebook page "Our internet customer
is merely an expansion of your phone the web
browser mirrors chats and messages from your
mobile phone-- this indicates all your messages
still survive on your phone". The WhatsApp
customer's phone have to still be connected to
the Internet for the browser application to work.
All major desktop browsers are supported with the
exception of MicrosoftInternet Traveler. WhatsApp
Internet's interface is based upon the default
Android one. As of January 21, 2015, the desktop
computer variation was just offered to Android,
BlackBerry and also Windows Phone individuals.
Later, it also added assistance for iOS, Nokia
Collection 40, and also Nokia S60 (Symbian).
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• After months at beta phase, the application at
  some point released in November 2009 exclusively
  on the App Shop for the iPhone. In January 2010,
  assistance for BlackBerry mobile phones was
  added, and also consequently for Symbian OS in
  May 2010 and also for Android OS in August 2010.
  In August 2011 a beta for Nokia's non-smartphone
  OS Series 40 was added. A month later support for
  Windows Phone was included, adhered to by
  BlackBerry 10 in March 2013. In April 2015,
  assistance for Samsung's Tizen OS was added.
• The oldest device capable of running WhatsApp is
  the Symbian-based Nokia N95 released in March
  2007.
• In August 2014, WhatsApp released an update to
  its Android application, adding support for
  Android Put on smartwatches

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