{"id":153784,"date":"2016-02-02T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T08:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=153784"},"modified":"2016-02-02T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T08:46:50","slug":"gmail-now-has-1-billion-monthly-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/153784-gmail-now-has-1-billion-monthly-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Gmail now has 1 billion monthly users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail now has one billion monthly active users, Alphabet announced during an earnings call.<\/p>\n<p>Google also has many other products with one billion users, including its search service, Chrome, Play, YouTube, Android, and Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Google launched Gmail in 2004 as an invitation-only service, and shook up the market by offering 1GB of storage instead of the usual few megabytes which was common\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2012, it became the most widely-used web-based email provider in the world, with 425 million active users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thanks a billion for helping us make Gmail better and better!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rd82YqwGjl\">https:\/\/t.co\/Rd82YqwGjl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gmail (@gmail) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gmail\/status\/694290964559429632\">February 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/130284-gmail-undo-send-feature-launched.html\">Gmail undo send feature launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/153503-how-much-google-paid-the-guy-who-bought-google-com.html\">How much Google paid the guy who bought Google.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/152719-how-much-money-google-makes-from-android.html\">How much money Google makes from Android<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet has announced that Gmail now has one billion monthly active users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":153800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,32030,407,167],"class_list":["post-153784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-alphabet","tag-gmail","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153814,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153784\/revisions\/153814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}