Background/ Introduction
Whatsapp was incorporated in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum former employees of Yahoo.This happened after leaving Yahoo in September 2007. They once applied for jobs at facebook but were rejected. In January 2009 after purchasing an iphone and realisding the app store would create an industry of apps. Koum visited friend Alex Fishman in west san jose where the 3 discused. Koum named the app whatsapp to sound like “what’s up”. Febuary 24th,2009, he incorporated whatsapp Inc in Califonia.
June 2009, Apple launched push notifications for users to be pinged when not using an app. Koum changed, every one in the user’s network would b notified. Whatsapp 2.0 was released was a messaging component and active users increased to 250,000. Acton being an employed and managing another startup, he decided to join the company. October 2009, he persuaded [Acton] five former friends in Yahoo! To invest $ 250,000 in seed funding and eventually he became a co-founder . He officially joined on November 1. In the same month 2009, the application eventually launched at beta stage on the app fpr iphone. Koum hired Chris Peiffer from Los Angeles to develop the blackberry version.
Whatsapp was switched from a free to paid service to avoid growing too fast because the primary cost was sending verification tests to users. December 2009, sending photos was addede to whatsapp for the iphone. 2011, whatsapp was one of the top 20 apps in Apple’s U.S.Apple store April 2011. Sequaia Capital paid approximately $8million for more than 15% of the company. By February 2013, whatsapp had about 200 million active users and 50 staff members. Sequonia invested more $50million and whatsapp was valued at $1.5billion.
December 2013 blogpost, 400 million active users used the service eachmonth. April 22, 2014, it had over 500 million monthly active users, 700 million photos, 100 million videos, 10 billion messages were being handled eachday. August 24,2014, Koum announced on twitter that watsapp had over 600million active users worldwide with 25million new users every mnth, or 833,000 active users perday, 65million active users representing 10% to the total worldwide users, India has the largest number of consumers. Whatsapp was officially made available on PCs under the name Whatsapp web in late January 2015 through an announcement made by Koum on his Facebook page. All major desktop browsers are supported except for Microsoft Internet Explorer. WhatsApp web’s user interface is based on the default Android one.
January 21, 2015, the desktop version was only available to Android, BlackBerry and windows phone users. An unofficial derivative called Whatsapp Time has been developed, which is a standard Win32 application for PCs and supports notifications through the window notification area.
Statement of the research problem
I have discovered that most students fail to catch up with the discussion in time and they end up missing out a lot. Again 20% of the students with in the university lack smartphones to support them with this and a minimum of 40% find it hard or luck concentration reading, discussing understanding class work using there phones. Sincfe classdiscussions are so important, most students end up registering failures andthats a big negative impact on academics.
General Objective and Specific Objectives.
To identify whether all students accept and believe that watsapp is the gretest source and platform to carryout and understand discussions from.
Using specific objectives, its intended;
a] to find out the percentage of people who understand from this media platform.
b] to identify the relevance of watsapp on these discussions to students.
c] to measure the academic improvements ever since thuis idea was introduced.
d] to discovere whether lecturers acknowledge, support and accept this revision style to continue.
e] to find out the problems that students have been facing eversince watsapp discussions were formed.
Research Questions
These are normally acquired from the objectives;
1] What percentage of people understand from this media platform?
2] What relevance does watsapp have on theses discussions to students?
3] What improvement has been registered ever since idea was introduced?
4] Do lectures acknowledge, support and accept watsap discussion groups as a clear platform for understanding?
5] Which problems do students face ever since watsapp discussion groups were formed or created?
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