Topic: Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion in tech world’s largest buy - page 2. (Read 2733 times)

Facebook is buying mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, by far the company's largest acquisition and bigger than any that Google, Microsoft or Apple have ever done.

http://www.firstpost.com/world/facebook-buys-whatsapp-for-19-billion-in-tech-worlds-largest-buy-1399787.html

You need to comprehend what people say and articulate yourself better and also re-read what I said. And of course you are biased. Your opinions on Whatsapp and Facebook members getting tired of it are not facts. Mostly what you were trying to tell me was irrelevant to what I was saying.

Never heard of it. Does it offer anything whatsapp doesnt?

Time to migrate to Telegram.

Time to migrate to Telegram.

Look man its upto you how you understood whatever i said , and yes fb users are fed up with them that is one reason people switching to other services like whatsapp , read the whole conversation again where i mentioned

didn't I mentioned.. Bro I have written so many articles on social networking you are the first one calling me biased just because your point of view is different  ..? i guess you was not reading what i was saying.. ! remember what happened to orkut..?

No you wasn't. You were trying to tell me how all their members are fed up with them based on nothing but your own biased opinion.

sadly that is how things are working in this World, pure business , I think facebook has realized that sooner or later watsapp will take over there member base

I don't think they only acquired whatsapp to add value to there market rather they did it to shut down the competition b/w whatsapp and fb ,

and this is what i was trying to explain you the whole day..!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/10650534/For-Zuckerberg-19bn-is-cheap-to-nullify-WhatsApp-threat.html

Interesting article.

WhatsApp deal: for Mark Zuckerberg $19bn is cheap to nullify the threat posed by messaging application

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg knows that it pays to feed the hand that stands to bite you

That's doesn't seem good as nowadats WhatApps fee is 1dollar after a year of using. I think facebook will increase the fee.

I think Facebook needs to buy Vkontakte.

I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire WhatsApp and that their entire team will be joining us at Facebook.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by building services that help people share any type of content with any group of people they want. WhatsApp will help us do this by continuing to develop a service that people around the world love to use every day.

WhatsApp is a simple, fast and reliable mobile messaging service that is used by over 450 million people on every major mobile platform. More than 1 million people sign up for WhatsApp every day and it is on its way to connecting one billion people. More and more people rely on WhatsApp to communicate with all of their contacts every day.

WhatsApp will continue to operate independently within Facebook. The product roadmap will remain unchanged and the team is going to stay in Mountain View. Over the next few years, we're going to work hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect the whole world. We also expect that WhatsApp will add to our efforts forInternet.org, our partnership to make basic internet services affordable for everyone.

WhatsApp will complement our existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools for our community. Facebook Messenger is widely used for chatting with your Facebook friends, and WhatsApp for communicating with all of your contacts and small groups of people. Since WhatsApp and Messenger serve such different and important uses, we will continue investing in both and making them each great products for everyone.

WhatsApp had every option in the world, so I’m thrilled that they chose to work with us. I’m looking forward to what Facebook and WhatsApp can do together, and to developing great new mobile services that give people even more options for connecting.

I've also known Jan for a long time, and I know that we both share the vision of making the world more open and connected. I'm particularly happy that Jan has agreed to join the Facebook board and partner with me to shape Facebook's future as well as WhatsApp's.

Jan and the WhatsApp team have done some amazing work to connect almost half a billion people. I can’t wait for them to join Facebook and help us connect the rest of the world.

Anyone thinking of switching to alternate services (like Telegram) after the news?