Facebook just BOUGHT "WhatsApp" for $19 BILLION Dollars :whoo:

[AB Ziggy]

fukk. Now watch as FB takes the Google route and floods WhatsApp with ads.

 

[TM101]

Damn sometimes I think facebook is getting desperate and just buying all th competition

 

[duckbutta]

So...who exactly made 19 billion? Or will make 19 billion?

Where is Facebook going to get 19 billion? Facebook does not have 19 billion in cash laying around

 

[WheresWallace]

It's a nice app.
I deleted Kik though. I feel like there are too many similar apps.
I'm sure Whatsapp will blow up even more now. I just hope that now it won't start with some bullshyt like ads now that FB has it.

Ads...they off that.

They will probably just keep records of all your conversations and sell them to the highest bidder.

Information is big business.

 

[Cory MBA]

Ads...they off that.

They will probably just keep records of all your conversations and sell them to the highest bidder.

Information is big business.

Metadata :sassure:

 

[Data-Hawk]

So...who exactly made 19 billion? Or will make 19 billion?

Where is Facebook going to get 19 billion? Facebook does not have 19 billion in cash laying around

I think it was 4 billion and the rest stock.

 

[///Vega+++]

well it ain't my money

but it's a pretty darned dumb move imo

 

[Remote]

Ads...they off that.

They will probably just keep records of all your conversations and sell them to the highest bidder.

Information is big business.

Lol. My conversations on WhatsApp weren't anything raunchy or incriminating.

 

[CJ]

I honestly don't know how Whatsapp sold for that price as I didn't know they even got revenue like that. Did some number crunching last night and saw that they had an 8 million dollar investment from a 3rd party way back when. They have a 300+ million user install base, but only 45 million of that paid $1 to have the app. They say IOS users had to pay for it but I don't know one person who's ever had to pay the yearly app price. So assuming they racked in 100 million, for instance, still don't know where this 19 billion sale comes from? Someone school me please.

They eating either way though Make app that masks texts for data brehs

 

[WheresWallace]

Lol. My conversations on WhatsApp weren't anything raunchy or incriminating.

You're just one person of 400 million users.

 

[L&HH]

I honestly don't know how Whatsapp sold for that price as I didn't know they even got revenue like that. Did some number crunching last night and saw that they had an 8 million dollar investment from a 3rd party way back when. They have a 300+ million user install base, but only 45 million of that paid $1 to have the app. They say IOS users had to pay for it but I don't know one person who's ever had to pay the yearly app price. So assuming they racked in 100 million, for instance, still don't know where this 19 billion sale comes from? Someone school me please.

They eating either way though Make app that masks texts for data brehs

well first of all they can increase the service charge. Secondly in the article they said that one of the benefits fo this acquisition is fb increased its reach in areas where it once couldn't such as Spain and I forget the other country

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

facebook doesn't buy these companies for the face value reasons you think tho. google on the same shyt they buying companies you think they do one thing but they using it for demonic things

 

[CJ]

well first of all they can increase the service charge. Secondly in the article they said that one of the benefits fo this acquisition is fb increased its reach in areas where it once couldn't such as Spain and I forget the other country

Just odd to read about FB of all things needing assistance to reach certain areas, lol.

I like the "1 billion dollar break up fee" though

 

[FlyRy]

Damn sometimes I think facebook is getting desperate and just buying all th competition

they are. facebook is damn near a ghost town.. the younger kids don't really use it. (at least in the US) and all the bishes migrated to instagram.

theyre lucky they bought IG. Feels like they just copped this because snapchat turned em down.

 

[Exiled Martian]

Whatsapp is big out here in the UK & am assuming Europe...never figured it was worth that much... then again this is Zuckerberg & his Goons on some 2002 Roc-a-fella takeova flex... remember when they tried to buy Snapchat for ~3-4 Billy... & them Snap chat creators were like