Monday, February 24, 2014

WhatsApp Facebook Deal: $19 billion dollars, a whole mess of Tweets

In a tech business move that everyone is talking about, Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is set to acquire the free mobile messaging service WhatsApp for a total of $19 Billion.
According to NPR, $16 billion of the purchase comes in cash and stock. The additional $3 billion is in Facebook stock for the employees of WhatsApp…all 55 of them. The small team runs this free app that seems to be hugely popular outside of America, where text messaging rates can be exorbitantly high.

Read the full article here.

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