Facebook’s WhatsApp Purchase Kun-Mao Chao (趙坤茂) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University, Taiwan A note given in BCC class on Feb. 26, 2014
A Big Deal (announced on February 19, 2014) Facebook paid $16 billion to acquire WhatsApp. the deal also includes $3 billion in restricted stock the founders and employees will receive, pushing the price tag up to $19 billion.
WhatsApp Instant messaging subscription service for smartphones. Founded by Jan Koum in Feb. 2009. It sounded like “what’s up.”
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