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600 million active users WhatsApp

Nayan — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:47:39 +0000

The word “active” is the key and its CEO as highlighted in the tweet, since other applications messaging, aimed primarily beat WhatsApp , always talking about registered and of course, who have not installed one of these applications, has been registered and has completely abandoned ?, as that. 600 million coming just four months after announcing 500 last April; 100 million in four months, said soon.

Bring your success dudándose long time, each time a new messaging service appears he is nicknamed “WhatsApp killer”, but the truth is that so far, nobody has managed to take him down. Today its CEO Jan Koum announces that WhatsApp reaches 600 million users worldwide assets, a spectacular figure and shows no signs of slowing down in the near future.

Much of that growth now comes from markets emerging industry knows where all you need to focus as it will be one of the most important spots in the coming years. Specifically WhatsApp already reported last week to have 60 million active users in India, still very short figure for the country’s potential.

#IceBucketChallenge Initiative has raised $ 79.7 million dollars

Nayan — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:37:36 +0000

The popularity of this challenge is due to the mass distribution has been through social networks , in addition to celebrities and personalities who have met the #IceBuckerChallenge and companies such as Samsung, which have become commercial.

The #IceBucketChallenge, known in Spanish as #RetodelaCubetadeHielo, has made the association dedicated to fighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, for its acronym in English), the ALS Association, collects a total of 79.7 million dollars in donations.

However, #IceBucketChallenge has a dark side, as the ALS Association reported $ 29 million in revenues over the last fiscal year, which ended in January 2014, of which only 27 percent was used for theinvestigation of this devastating disease .

This means that of the 79.7 million dollars raised for the ALS Association through the #IceBucketChallenge, only about $ 21 million will be used for disease research, dedicated to improving the lives of all patients suffering from disease also known as Lou Gehrig.

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