Google's Gmail becomes seventh Google product to cross 1 billion monthly active users

Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the announcement during an earnings call for parent company Alphabet, which is now the most valuable company in the world.  The Verge stated that this is seventh billion-user service for Google, which also includes Search, Chrome, Android, Google Play, Maps, and YouTube. https://twitter.com/gmail/status/694290964559429632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw May last year, the company had  900 million users also opted the new Google Inbox to all users. Gmail had more than doubled its user base since 2012, when the number stood at just 425 million. According to a previous **report** , in what appears to be a bit strange, Google had also begun to redirect its Gmail users to its experimental Inbox service. Users are reporting a pop-up message that reads, “Thanks for trying Inbox! To make it easier we’ve updated Gmail to redirect you here”, followed by two buttons, ‘Turn it off’ or ‘OK’. Recently, Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp has also reached the milestone of one-billion users, with 42 billion messages being exchanged daily, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced. Founded by Ukrainian immigrants to America Jan Koum and Brian Acton in 2009, WhatsApp was acquired by social media giant Facebook for $19 billion in 2014. WhatsApp waived its annual subscription fee because it has not worked well.