#7 The biggest internet deal

Since Time Warner’s acquisition of AOL for $124 billion, the acquisition of WhatsApp is considered as one of the biggest deals ever made in IT industry, as per Bloomberg data. According to Dow Jones Venture Source, WhatsApp acquisition is the biggest deal of a venture capital backed startup.

#6 Google’s odd offer to WhatsApp

Google made an offer to buy the messaging service WhatsApp for $10 billion before Facebook sealed the deal for $19 billion. According to a report from ‘The Information’, Google’s odd offer to the messaging service was just to get notified whether WhatApps has made any other acquisition. Google's so called offer to WhatsApp was a kind of negotiating tactic, which it applied to make an awareness of the potential startup acquisitions.

#5 WhatsApp co-founder was turned down at Facebook

Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp applied for a job at Facebook and was rejected. After being turned down he wrote in tweet, “Facebook turned me down. It was great opportunity to work with some fantastic people, looking forward to life’s next adventure.”

#4 WhatsApp in numbers

WhatsApp has 450 million monthly users and 72 percent of them are daily users. In addition to the 600 million photos and 100 million video messages, daily there are 19 billion messages sent and 34 billion received through WhatsApp. First time in the history, WhatsApp has crossed 450 million active users limit. WhatsApp’s messaging volume is approaching the worldwide telecom SMS volume.

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