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Facebook-owned WhatsApp boasts a billion users
Published Tue, Feb 2, 2016 · 09:50 PM
San Francisco
FACEBOOK-OWNED smartphone messaging service WhatsApp has hit the billion-user mark, according to the leading social network's chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
"One billion people now use WhatsApp," Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page.
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