Facebook buys Whatsapp
Facebook acquires whatsapp for $19 billion on
Wednesday. Facebook is one of the biggest social networking site
preceded by twitter. Whatsapp is another application used in mobile
device for connectivity among friends with similar features of facebook.
Facebook was
initially developed for PC based social networking. It received
overwhelming response and leaded the market for past 5 years. Facebook
developed mobile application to facilitate mobile users. Similarly Whatsapp was
an application launched a couple of years ago for mobile users.
Whatsapp also gathered huge response of 450 million users due to its
unique features.
And now, its facebook buys whatsapp for $19 billion. It was officially announced on Wednesday 19th February 2014. It is one of the biggest acquisitions in recent time. The purchase includes $12 billion in Facebook shares and $4 billion
cash. It calls for an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to
be granted to WhatsApp founders and employees that will vest over four
years.
So it has raised expectations among facebook and whatsapp mobile users for any new features. So lets see for any change ... !!!!
Mark Zuckerberg has posted about whatsapp acquisition in twitter as below :
"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 road map
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 for Internet.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."
The developer of whatsapp tried to join facebook and twitter few years ago. But he was rejected. And now the app developed by him is bought by facebook. So, this shows " Every failure has a biggest success ahead " .
Interesting fact:
The developer of whatsapp tried to join facebook and twitter few years ago. But he was rejected. And now the app developed by him is bought by facebook. So, this shows " Every failure has a biggest success ahead " .
So lets wait and watch for any new features in whatsapp.. sorry.... facebook acquired whatsapp ... !!!!!
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