Tag: One billion

Netflix has finally exceeded one billion downloads on the Play Store. It's still way ahead of its competitors Hulu and Prime Video, both of which have less than 500 million installs.

Usman Khan Lodhi · Jul 29, 2020 with 1 comment

Today, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 is now running on over a billion active devices. Its original target was to hit this goal within two to three years of the OS being released.

Rich Woods · Mar 16, 2020 · Hot! with 48 comments

WhatsApp has announced that it now has over a billion daily active users around the world. It also said that monthly active users have risen to 1.3 billion - an increase of 30% in 18 months.

Andy Weir · Jul 27, 2017 with 7 comments

Microsoft said in 2015 that Windows 10 would reach a billion devices in 2-3 years. It now says that, "due to the focusing of our phone business", it will take longer than expected to reach that goal.

Andy Weir · Jul 15, 2016 · Hot! with 87 comments

Last April, Microsoft said Windows 10 would reach a billion devices within 2-3 years. This week, it said it's installed on 350 million devices so far. But how likely is it that it will reach its goal?

Andy Weir · Jun 30, 2016 · Hot! with 63 comments

WhatsApp isn't the only one to pass the billion-user milestone this week. Following the publication of Alphabet's quarterly earnings, Google revealed that its Gmail service has a billion users too.

Andy Weir · Feb 2, 2016 · Hot! with 20 comments

Back in September, WhatsApp revealed that it had 900 million active users, and now - two weeks after dropping its annual $0.99 subscription fee - it's announced that it has over a billion users.

Andy Weir · Feb 2, 2016 · Hot! with 3 comments