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WhatsApp may get an Indian CEO following Jan Koum’s exit
With 1.5 million monthly users, WhatsApp is the biggest mobile messaging service in the world. …
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WhatsApp cofounder Jan Koum's departure from Facebook is cowardly and leaves users in the lurch
The ICO concluded that the two companies don't actually share data for any nefarious reasons - but …
Shona Ghosh
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Jan Koum quit Facebook to collect Porsches - here's why he owes everything to the German sports car
Amid reported friction over the collection of WhatsApp user data, Koum said he will leave Facebook …
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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WhatsApp founder Jan Koum just sold another $203 million in Facebook stock
Last month, Facebook announced that WhatsApp was changing its privacy policy for the first time sin…
Matt Rosoff,Sam Shead
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Facebook and Whatsapp are the most exciting brands of 2015
If you blame it on India’s growing urbanity, hold on! Here’s Rajesh from a suburb in Patna who is p…
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WhatsApp Founders Got Around $9-Billion Share In Facebook Stock At The Time Of Acquisition
Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant, got 76.4 million Facebook shares, now worth $5.8 billion (approximatel…
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WhatsApp Reaches 600 Million Monthly Active Users
"Now serving 600,000,000 monthly active users. Yes, active and registered are very different types …
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This Is How Jan Koum Introduced WhatsApp To The World Back In 2009
Rahul Sood, general manager of Microsoft Ventures says he found one from back in the day, when the …
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WhatsApp founder Jan Koum has sold more than $2.5 billion of Facebook stock this year
On Thursday, Facebook announced that WhatsApp was changing its privacy policy for the first time si…
Matt Rosoff
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The rags-to-riches story of WhatsApp cofounder Jan Koum, who grew up without running water and is now worth over $9 billion
Koum now leads a team of around 100 people working on WhatsApp, which is used heavily in developing…
Alex Heath,Madeline Stone
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RAGS TO RICHES: WhatsApp Co-Founder Jan Koum Once Lived On Food Stamps
Flash forward to today, when Facebook announced it was buying WhatsApp for a stunning $19 billion i…
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WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum just sold $300 million worth of Facebook stock - but once he was living on food stamps
Although the sale wasn't discretionary and was just meant to pay off the taxes on stock K…
Jillian D'Onfro,Madeline Stone
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Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, just spent $94 million on her 4th Malibu property in 10 years
Laurene Powell Jobs has spent more than $170 million on four adjacent oceanside properties in Malib…
Erin Snodgrass
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WhatsApp users will finally be able to edit their messages after they've sent them — but only for 15 minutes
WhatsApp is making its new message editing feature available to its 2 billion users globally, allow…
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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Elon Musk is escalating his beef with Mark Zuckerberg, claiming WhatsApp 'cannot be trusted' and saying the Meta CEO seems 'extremely partisan'
After a Twitter engineer said WhatsApp used his microphone without his knowledge, Musk made veiled …
Matthew Loh
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A non-profit venture fund aims to back 200 startups established by refugee Ukrainian entrepreneurs
The founders of the fund hope it will help mitigate some of the negative impacts of the conflict on…
Urooba Jamal
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Neeraj Arora, former chief business officer of WhatsApp regrets sale to Facebook
Neeraj Arora, the former chief business officer of WhatsApp has said that he regrets the sale to Fa…
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The billionaire cofounder of WhatsApp added a $100 million Malibu mansion to his list of California homes, and it was just $10 million short of matching the area's real-estate record
As Business Insider's Alex Heath and Madeline Stone previously reported, Koum's rise to wealth in S…
Libertina Brandt
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The billionaire cofounder of WhatsApp has reportedly spent $80 million assembling what may be the most expensive compound in America's richest town
Koum sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion in 2014 and joined the company's Board of Directors.…