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WhatsApp reports more than 700M users

Briefs | 01/07/2015 3:29 pm EST

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said on a Facebook post Tuesday that the service now has more than 700 million active monthly users, up from 450 million when Facebook Inc. announced its intention to purchase the mobile-messaging-app company last February.

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