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Facebook buys WhatsApp for 16bn |
tranced Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: > 500 From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland PM |
On February 19, 2014, Facebook, Inc. (“Parent”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the “Merger Agreement”) with Rhodium Acquisition Sub II, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned (in part directly and in part indirectly) subsidiary of Parent (“Acquirer”), Rhodium Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Acquirer (“Merger Sub”), WhatsApp Inc., a Delaware corporation (“WhatsApp”), and Fortis Advisors LLC, as the stockholders’ agent.
As you heard it! The F is buying the messaging app WhatsApp. The buyout will be divided in cash(4bn) and stocks(12bn). If you want to read more about this deal, make sure you head to the document.
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hihihans Joined: Mar 15, 2009 Posts: > 500 From: Netherlands PM |
I wonder what they'll do with it. Implant it in FB to replace messenger?
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Away Joined: Oct 15, 2012 Posts: > 500 PM |
Sad, sad news... 16bn? And I thought Microsoft was too desperate in buying Skype... But you know you're desperate when you offer snapchat 3bn
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Bonovox Joined: Apr 13, 2008 Posts: > 500 PM |
Facebook is useless at making apps work properly they'll mess this one up now
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goldenface Joined: Dec 17, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Liverpool City Centre PM |
Now Facebook will have all our phone numbers too.
We need a new 'Whatsapp' now
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tranced Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: > 500 From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland PM |
Have you heard of telegram? Almost WhatsApp plus a lot of goodies.
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hihihans Joined: Mar 15, 2009 Posts: > 500 From: Netherlands PM |
I know telegram stop it is an old communication system stop
I'll give it a try.
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Bonovox Joined: Apr 13, 2008 Posts: > 500 PM |
Telegram haha that'll have to be posted
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Tsepz_GP Joined: Dec 27, 2006 Posts: > 500 From: Johannesburg, South Africa PM |
The juggernaut is growing, and where is Twitter in all of this??? They need to start making major acquisitions to, Vine and Ads can only take them so far.
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goldenface Joined: Dec 17, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Liverpool City Centre PM |
It seem's the popularity of Whatsapp is a danger to the networks, who have traditionally made money from sms / mms. If this is so then it might drive the price of data plans up in order to compensate.
The good thing about Whatsapp though is being able to send videos free to any phone number, something the networks have never allowed us to do properly.
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Tsepz_GP Joined: Dec 27, 2006 Posts: > 500 From: Johannesburg, South Africa PM |
...and then there's also BBM for Android, which recently got a major update to be more competitive with WhatsApp.
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goldenface Joined: Dec 17, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Liverpool City Centre PM |
I have BBM for Andrd but rarely use it. For some reason Whatsapp is just so much simpler, for me anyway. I hope they don't change it but knowing Facebook, somewhere down the line they're going to make it pay.
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Tsepz_GP Joined: Dec 27, 2006 Posts: > 500 From: Johannesburg, South Africa PM |
I use both BBM for Android and WhatsApp daily as I have friends and family who like to use one or the other and I have to agree, WhatsApp is much simpler/cleaner interface and it's also far less resource heavy.
FB have done a great job at keeping Instagram original, remember they bought them for $1billion last year? FB did a great job at fending off competition from Vine, they added Instagram Video and Instagram Direct Message yet kept the experience as smooth, fluid and simple as before. I don't expect them to ruin WhatsApp, rather I expect them to kill off the WhatsApp Trial period and make it completely free and maybe do a sort of tie-in with Instagram and FB, good times ahead, IMO.
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alenn Joined: Nov 07, 2010 Posts: > 500 From: Croatia,Zagreb PM, WWW
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I don't use any of the aforementioned, I just use the FB app occasionaly when I'm on my Huawei. But most of the time I'm on my N900 anyways.
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Bonovox Joined: Apr 13, 2008 Posts: > 500 PM |
Facebook shares dropped today
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