Facebook buys WhatsApp for..

[King Gizzard]

436260483298234369

[Shaun]

can't tell if that's a lot, or very little, nowadays

[King Gizzard]

quite alot considering in August Facebook was valued at over 100bn for the first time

[Vicky.]

...why?

Whatsapp is free... and has no ads, dont see how they can make anything from it :suspect:

[Withano]

Better prepare ourselves for adverts

[King Gizzard]

by adding ads and taking out some indirect competition I guess...and extending the brand and putting their name to it

[Vicky.]

Ugh.

Kik ftw :hmph:

[Ramsay]

what is it?

[King Gizzard]

a free messenger thing for iphone/android whatever

[Brother Leon]

Whatsapp>>>


I only ever have to text my dad these days lol

[Smithy]

Ugh they better not integrate it with Facebook, i don't use that **** :fist:

[reece(:]

Kik >

[King Gizzard]

Apparently it's 19bn

[GypsyGoth]

I would have paid 20bn :pipe:

[zakman440]

What the FAck?!

[Shaun]

I would have paid 20bn :pipe:

yeah but you spent $10bn of it on flappy bird :fist:

[King Gizzard]

I would have paid 20bn :pipe:

OaiSHcHM0PA

[King Gizzard]

pretty big figures/stats in here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/10650355/Facebook-buys-WhatsApp-for-16bn-the-key-points.html

[King Gizzard]

and Zuckerberg's reasoning http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/10650340/Facebook-buys-WhatsApp-Mark-Zuckerberg-explains-why.html

[MTVN]

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.

These don't seem that different to me seeing as you can talk in groups with however many people you like on facebook messenger lol

[GypsyGoth]

yeah but you spent $10bn of it on flappy bird :fist:

I haven't even played Angry Birds, this whole phone app game thing is happily passing me by.

OaiSHcHM0PA

Ok you caught me, I don't really have 20bn :pipe2:

[Vanessa]

I've never used what's app. Some friend has told me it's good. I don't even know how to use it. :laugh2:

[Ramsay]

Bring back MSN </3

[Apple202]

who even uses whatsapp

[Shaun]

*raises hand*

so much better than FB chat / texting

[Brother Leon]

Group chats on Whatsapp with your friends are the ****.

[Jordan.]

I use whatsapp everyday they better not **** with it