Facebook Acquires Whatsapp-Landmark Deal
Landmark in the history of social networks. Facebook buys WhatsApp: Mark Zuckerberg and his company has paid $19bn for messaging service WhatsApp.
I think Whatsapp is a good strategic buy by FB.
What do you think could be the rationale? Removing a hot competitor, facilitating a shift to mobile, tapping new (younger?) audience etc. Also 450M people use whatsapp network, the value of that network, is not only based on the amount of users, but also how many contacts they have and how often they send messages.This creates a network strength that is unknown and able to distribute messages in a faster way, because unlike facebook you are always online with your mobile phone.
Facebook Acquires Whatsapp-Landmark Deal
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Friday, February 21, 2014
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Sumer Sethi
Unique blend of academic excellence and entrepreneurship, heading leading firms in India- Teleradiology Providers, pioneering company providing teleradiology services and DAMS (Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences) Premier test preparation institute in India for MD/MS/MCI preparation. He has also been an invited faculty member at various conferences, including Teleradiology in IRIA 2008 and 2011, Hospital Build Middle East, Congress of the Brain Tumor Radiology in Neuro-oncology Society. Dr. Sethi is Editor-in-Chief of Internet Journal of Radiology. He has a keen interest in Web 2.0 technologies and in maintaining his famous radiology blog, which has been featured in multiple international journals.
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