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Facebook to acquire WhatsApp for $4B cash, $12B in Facebook shares, and $3B in restricted stock units, CEO Koum to join Facebook's Board — Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp — Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WhatsApp, a rapidly growing cross …
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| Jan Koum / WhatsApp Blog: |
WhatsApp says it will remain autonomous and nothing will change for users — Facebook — Almost five years ago we started WhatsApp with a simple mission: building a cool product used globally by everybody. Nothing else mattered to us. — Today we are announcing a partnership …
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| Jim Goetz / Sequoia Capital: |
WhatsApp in numbers: 450M active users, 32 engineers, $0 in marketing, and only $1/year to use — Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp — WhatsApp Co-Founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton — Earlier today, Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp for $16 billion.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
WhatsApp and Messenger serve different uses, Facebook will continue investing in both — 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.
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Why Facebook Dropped $19B On Whatsapp: Reach Into Europe, Emerging Markets — With 450 million monthly users and a million more signing up each day, WhatsApp was just too far ahead in the international mobile messaging race for Facebook Messenger to catch up as you can see in the 2013 chart above.| Zoran Basich / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Facebook's $19 Billion WhatsApp Acquisition Is Largest Ever for Venture-Backed Company — Facebook's acquisition of mobile-messaging company WhatsApp for about $19 billion is the largest deal ever for a venture-capital-backed startup. … The deal tops US West Media's acquisition …
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| David Rowan / Wired.co.uk: |
WhatsApp: The inside story — When he was living on welfare, Jan Koum's family collected food stamps a couple of blocks from the unmarked Mountain View office that now houses his messaging company, WhatsApp. An émigré at 16 from Communist Ukraine — where phones were routinely tapped …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Zuckerberg reached out to Koum in 2012, and proposed the deal at dinner at his home this February — The Inside Story Of How Facebook Bought WhatsApp For $19 Billion — Today Facebook announced that it acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion. — It was a deal two years in the making, according to a source close to the situation.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
WhatsApp processes 500M images/day compared to Snapchat's 400M, Facebooks's 350M, and Instagram's 55M — Follow the photos: The real reason Facebook just paid almost 10% of its market cap for WhatsApp — So you thought $1 billion for Instagram was crazy. — And then you thought $3 billion for Snapchat was insane.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
35% of Facebook's cash is being used for the WhatsApp deal; Sequoia to make 3.5B from its $60M investment — Facebook-WhatsApp: The other numbers — Facebook is buying WhatsApp for $19 billion. But that's not the only important number. — FORTUNE — Like many of you … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Google Fiber chooses nine metro areas for possible expansion — Google Fiber is ready to expand, as Google has identified nine metro areas scattered around the country as possible sites of deployment, the company said. — “We've invited 34 cities in nine metro areas across the US to work …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
BlackBerry's CEO is ‘outraged’ by T-Mobile's attempts to convert its customers to the iPhone — BlackBerry's new CEO John Chen is taking issue with what appears to be a fairly innocent T-Mobile promotion. Last week, T-Mobile sent out an email to some customers currently using …
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Wheeler unveils new proposed rules for network neutrality, will try to stop “improper blocking” — The FCC announced its response to an explosive court decision that ended “net neutrality” last month: it will not appeal the decision, but scramble to impose new rules.| Bloomberg: |
Google Capital Lands $300 Million and Leaps Into Web Education — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s new investment arm has $300 million in fresh capital to put to work this year and is starting the dealmaking with its first foray into Web education. — Google Capital, established by the search company …
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| Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times: |
Federal court in Utah sides with broadcasters against Aereo — Aereo transmits via tiny antennas. — Aereo's streak of legal victories over the broadcasting industry has come to an end. — The startup company, which sends broadcast television signals to consumers via the Internet … | Nathaniel Popper / DealBook: |
Winklevoss brothers launch new Bitcoin price index called Winkdex as their Bitcoin Trust moves closer to regulatory approval — Winklevoss Brothers Offer an Index to Track Price of Bitcoin — Stock traders have the Standard & Poor's 500. Bitcoin bettors will have the Winkdex.| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Google I/O is back June 25-26 and you'll need to win a lottery to attend — Google just announced dates for its annual I/O developers conference, an event that has typically brought new products and updates to other services. This year's conference will be held from June 25-26 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Opens Its Publishing Platform To All Members — To date, LinkedIn has allowed a small, editorially selected group of “Influencers” like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Barack Obama to publish their thoughts and advice to its network as long-form blog posts.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung goes back to trashing Apple with latest commercials — After some innovative advertising campaigns, Samsung's latest commercials once again find the company setting its sights on Apple. In a new ad for the Galaxy Note 3, Samsung uses NBA star LeBron James to highlight …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Tesla CEO Confirms ‘Conversations’ With Apple, Says Any Acquisition ‘Very Unlikely’ — Following a report earlier this week suggesting Apple had considered purchasing Tesla, Tesla CEO Elon Musk today confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg that his company “had conversations” with Apple.
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