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A threat to the telecom industry. Web apps like Facebook and WhatsApp erode the need for "wireless data plans" which are the primary source of revenue for wireless carriers.

Mayonnaise brand Hellmann's and ad agency CUBOCC worked together to create WhatsCook, a live recipe service that lets users chat with real chefs or an expert cooking team and learn how to prepare meals in real time using the WhatsApp chat. Users just have to send their number via WhatsCook's website and a specialized cooking team gets in touch with them to find out when they need help with. After setting a schedule they can then chat via WhatsApp and start cooking.

what is FB goig to do with WhatsApp -- $13 billion acquisition

"The new chat feature is pretty easy to access. Users simply swipe right on someone's username in their inbox to start a conversation. Before, Snapchat users could only send text in the form of captions on photos, resulting in a lot of terrible pictures being sent for the sake of the messages that accompanied them. Now, conversations don't look much different from those in other mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp and GroupMe, except these ones disappear after they take place."

Oh yeah, and What's app is REALLY not into advertising Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. - Tyler Durden, Fight Club http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-ads/

"Line, a Japan-made WhatsApp rival that is owned by Korean content giant Naver, just announced that it has hit 10 million registered users in Thailand at a press conference in Bangkok today, marking the first time it has provided a figure for a market outside of its native Japan. The company has more than 75 million users worldwide, so a pretty significant chunk of its user base is in Thailand, but more impressive than that is the fact that Facebook itself has 17.9 million users in Thailand (it is Facebook's 17th largest market)."

Research firm Informa believes nearly 19 billion instant messages were sent per day in 2012 through chat applications, which has finally overtaken SMS texts which only 17.6 billion texts were sent in the same year. The 19 billion instant messages were spread across six of the most popular mobile chat applications: WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, Viber, Nimbuzz, Apple's iMessage and KakaoTalk.

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