Facebook buys WhatsApp
Time to think about making myself a phone app!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26266689
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Why have they paid 19 Billion, I got it for 69p on the app store?6
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I must be getting old, what is whatsapp ?0
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Its not $16bn in cash, a lot of it is Facebook stock ($12bn) and only $4bn in cash0
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You know how these Chiselhurst types like to flaunt their wealth!JT said:1 -
I dont want my whatsapp linked to my Facebook.
Why are these people obsessed with connecting everything to everything else.
Bunch of tossers2 -
I hope they don't link it to Facebook, some of the filth that gets sent round my Whatsapp i'll be nicked by the end of the week.4
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facebook user numbers are dwindling amongst u18s/young people. i'm guessing this is the company trying to spread their bets.C.Walsh'sLoveChild said:I dont want my whatsapp linked to my Facebook.
Why are these people obsessed with connecting everything to everything else.
Bunch of tossers0 - Sponsored links:
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ValleyGary said:
I hope they don't link it to Facebook, some of the filth that gets sent round my Whatsapp i'll be nicked by the end of the week.
You know this
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ValleyGary said:
I hope they don't link it to Facebook, some of the filth that gets sent round my Whatsapp i'll be nicked by the end of the week.
Ha ha you and about 50 million others!0 -
One of my Whatsapp groups has the most depraved filth on it. There is no way I want that linked with facebook in any way at all.
Does anyone use Whatsapp for anything other than (ahem) 'banter'?0 -
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I'd never heard of it but 19bn ? Apparently they only employ 50 people0
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This is possibly the most ridiculous valuation of anything ever.
Here is what is going to happen. Facebook will ruin or commercialise whatsapp.
Someone will come up with another version, which is basically whatsapp but without Zuckerberg's shite all over it.
Facebook then buy this new messaging service.
Repeat ad infinitum.1 -
i've never heard of it either.0
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people said the same of instagram, which facebook bought for $1 billion but is still going strong. Whatsapp has been going longer and nearly everyone has it on their smartphonesHuskaris said:This is possibly the most ridiculous valuation of anything ever.
Here is what is going to happen. Facebook will ruin or commercialise whatsapp.
Someone will come up with another version, which is basically whatsapp but without Zuckerberg's shite all over it.
Facebook then buy this new messaging service.
Repeat ad infinitum.0 -
Insane amount of money which means they will be looking to increase the revenue through adverts etc much like facebook. Still, nice little payday for the 2 guys that set it up, even if the facebook shares end up worthless.0
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they won't use advertising, they'll simply sell your data...Addicted said:Insane amount of money which means they will be looking to increase the revenue through adverts etc much like facebook. Still, nice little payday for the 2 guys that set it up, even if the facebook shares end up worthless.
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Insane amount of money for something that is effectively a text/chat service.
What exactly makes WhatsApp different from what is on Facebook anyway, apart from the fact that info is deleted on the server once it has been sent?0 -
much more data that facebook can sell.cafctom said:Insane amount of money for something that is effectively a text/chat service.
What exactly makes WhatsApp different from what is on Facebook anyway, apart from the fact that info is deleted on the server once it has been sent?0 -
Clearly a lot of money to be made with these messaging apps. Snapchat turned down something like a $3-4bn offer from facebook at the end of last year and that was created by two 23 year olds.0
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Founder of Whatsapp five year's ago:
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Remember that only 25% is paid in actual money.
75% of the sum is in Facebook stock.0 -
They aren't gonna get very much for my dick picskentaddick said:
they won't use advertising, they'll simply sell your data...Addicted said:Insane amount of money which means they will be looking to increase the revenue through adverts etc much like facebook. Still, nice little payday for the 2 guys that set it up, even if the facebook shares end up worthless.
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You'll start getting penis enlargement advertising pop up in your e-mails ; )Addicted said:
They aren't gonna get very much for my dick picskentaddick said:
they won't use advertising, they'll simply sell your data...Addicted said:Insane amount of money which means they will be looking to increase the revenue through adverts etc much like facebook. Still, nice little payday for the 2 guys that set it up, even if the facebook shares end up worthless.
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SELR_addicks said:
You'll start getting penis enlargement advertising pop up in your e-mails ; )Addicted said:
They aren't gonna get very much for my dick picskentaddick said:
they won't use advertising, they'll simply sell your data...Addicted said:Insane amount of money which means they will be looking to increase the revenue through adverts etc much like facebook. Still, nice little payday for the 2 guys that set it up, even if the facebook shares end up worthless.
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25% of $19m still ain't bad!SELR_addicks said:Remember that only 25% is paid in actual money.
75% of the sum is in Facebook stock.0
