WRFX VALUATION COMPARISON:- Courtsey of BAXY Lo
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Look at the field we're are entering and this is just the chat realm, not the Protocol realm!!!!
WRFX has a protocol none of these others have!
SYMPHONY:
Messaging app Symphony receives $1bn valuation
Symphony, a secure messaging app that counts 15 of the world’s biggest banks among its investors and 200,000 paying customers, has raised a new tranche of funding to fuel its expansion into new markets. Symphony has closed in on $63 million; and according to sources close to the company, the startup is now valued at over $1 billion — confirming our reporting from December.
KIK:
Chat app Kik valued at $1-billion after investment from China’s Tencent
Kik's messaging app is immensely popular with 13- to 24-year-olds in North America and has 240 million registered users.
TELEGRAM:
Telegram is understood to be considering raising as much as $500 million in the pre-ICO sale at a potential total token value in the range of $3 billion to $5 billion.
Telegram chalks up 200M MAUs for its messaging app
Another usage milestone for messaging platform Telegram: It’s announcedpassing 200M monthly active users “within the last 30 days”.
The platform passed 100M MAUs back in February 2016, when it held a lavish party at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona to celebrate the metric. At the time it said it was adding 350k new users daily and that there were 15 billion messages generated daily.
LINE:
This statistic shows a timeline with the amount of monthly active LINE users worldwide as of the fourth quarter of 2016. As of that period, the mobile messaging app announced more than 217 million monthly active users
Line, the cutesy messaging up with over 200 million active users around the world, just had its long-awaited IPO debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
Line hit the markets at US$42 per share, way up on the US$32.80 decided upon earlier in the week. That means Line is valued at over US$9 billion.
VIBER:
Founded in 2010, Viber has grown to claim more than 1 billion members globally, though the company doesn’t reveal how many of those are active users. Viber was acquired by Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten for $900 million in 2014
Tencent’s WeChat hits 1 billion milestone as Lunar New Year boosts monthly active users
WeChat’s monthly user numbers pass 1 billion, up from 980 million in third quarter last year, boosted by Lunar New Year social media activity
PUBLISHED : Monday, 05 March, 2018, 11:07am
UPDATED : Monday, 05 March, 2018, 11:33pm
Tencent, the Chinese internet giant behind the WeChat messaging app, has surpassed Facebook in value after it became the first company in China to be worth more than $500bn (£378bn).
The company's share price rose 2.4pc on Tuesday in Hong Kong to leapfrog Facebook and become the world's fifth-most valuable listed company, disrupting the hegemony of the US tech behemoths.
Tencent is little known as a consumer name in the West but its WeChat app dominates in China, where Facebook, Twitter and Google are banned.
SUMMARY:
SYMPHONY
Users: 200,000
Valuation: $1B
KIK
Users: 240M
Valuation: $1B
TELEGRAM
Users: 200M
Valuation: $3-5B
LINE
Users: 217M
Valuation: $9B
VIBER
Users: 1B
Valuation: 900M
Users: 1B
Valuation: $500B (Tencent)
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